Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Novick, who used his own research as well as the material gathered by the previous biographers, has produced an incredibly well-documented book, with 75 pages of endnotes. In his quest for detail, the author has even gone so far as to inquire of Dr. Peter F. Stevens, curator of Harvard's herbaria, the genus of a sprig of leaves that an admirer enclosed in a letter to Holmes. He also checked Harvard library records to determine exactly what day Holmes checked out a particularly important book on mysticism during his college days...
Cambridge realtor and Proposition 1-2-3 author Frederick R. Meyer said Rosemary D. White of the Cambridge Homeownership Association (CHOA) conceived of the slogan because "we need to get people thinking about what we allow choices for and what...
...party began last June. As deputy head of party propaganda, He played a key role in a 1987 conference of hard-liners who attempted to thwart the efforts of incoming Party Secretary Zhao to speed the pace of reforms. As Culture Minister, He replaces Wang Meng, a liberal-minded author who has not been seen since June...
LORD BYRON'S DOCTOR by Paul West (Doubleday; $19.95). A brilliant tour de force about the cruelty of genius, starring Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary (author of Frankenstein) and the narrator, an indiscreet physician...
...NATURAL CURIOSITY by Margaret Drabble (Viking; $19.95). In a sequel to The Radiant Way (1987), the author offers a Victorian-style novel about some decidedly contemporary English women...