Word: authored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hated Science Fiction until sixth grade,when someone introduced me to Madeleine L'Engle's[a popular children's science fiction author]work," Demitrio said. "Then I read all her work inthe next three days, without eating or sleeping...
Those who like to entertain with "slightly different" dishes should be pleased by Gene Hovis's Uptown Down Home Cookbook (Little, Brown; 235 pages; $17.95). This culinary memoir is built around the foods of the author's North Carolina childhood, but it also encompasses recipes that Hovis developed in a career as a New York City food stylist and caterer -- chicken breasts in orange-cognac sauce, or a watercress, cucumber and avocado soup...
...Author Robert A. Caro, whose book on the legendary city planner Robert Moses was a Pulitzer-prizewinning study of the exercise of urban power, decries Koch's lack of vision. "The physical transformation of a city changes it for generations, for centuries. I see a city being cemented into place against the sky -- a city of monstrous buildings, with a disregard for human scale, human values. Koch is building a big city, not a great one. The Koch administration, I fear, will go down in history surrounded by shadows, the shadow of corruption and the shadows cast by enormous buildings...
...many of them offering the tenured safety of $40,000-plus salaries. On campus, he claims, innovation and creativity have been subordinated to abstruse research, cranked out to satisfy doctoral requirements or a department chairman's notions of what will advance the discipline. As one proof, the author recalls a Modern Language Association project in which 18 scholars read Tom Sawyer backward to avoid being caught up in the story while they checked how often "Aunt Polly" is written as "aunty Polly...
...author might be interested to know that we have several complaints from students about what they regard as the manipulative techniques of the Boston Church of Christ. We hope he would agree that the destructive activity of any religious organization both deserves and requires public scrutiny...