Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact of life, and I'm not sure that the Government should necessarily have a solution," says Semerad. Nevertheless, the proposal will probably be politically attractive. "It is historic in that the Federal Government assumes the responsibility for dealing with these major problems of fundamental adjustment," says Pat Choate, author of The High-Flex Society. "We have over 2 million people a year who lose their jobs." He views the $1 billion, which could serve as many as 900,000 dislocated workers, as a "step in the right direction...
...this refraction of reality is not nearly as interesting as it might be. To punch it up a bit, suppose that Roth's fiction was clamorously acclaimed; that his first published volume, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), won the National Book Award and made the author a name to be reckoned with at 27. Implausible, true, but more dramatic than the other version. And what about that happily-ever-after marriage? Maybe it lasted only a few years before plummeting into an acrimonious separation in 1963 that left Roth deep in debt, thanks to legal expenses, and sent him reeling into five...
...maniac. His three books about Nathan Zuckerman, The Ghost Writer (1979), Zuckerman Unbound (1981) and The Anatomy Lesson (1983), have led to charges that Roth is trapped in narcissistic reverie, writing about a writer who resembles himself. As if thumbing his nose at such comments, the author now offers The Counterlife (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 324 pages; $18.95). It features, naturally, Nathan Zuckerman...
There are three issues here. One is the motivation of the student demonstrators, the second is the effect of student demonstrations and the third is the meaning of these demonstrations. On these three issues, some of the statements quoted in the article are, in the opinion of this author, fundamentally flawed...
...adult author attempts the difficult task of recalling a thirteen-year-old's confusion, incredulity and shock at the whirlwind of tragedy which buffeted him. Fact and fiction are inextricably mixed. To patch the gaps in his memory, Maspero reimagines the half-mad atmosphere of a 1944 France through the widening, narrowing eyes of a child called...