Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article begins with the premise that "Something is a bit odd about people who proclaim 'I want to help other people"' and implies that "something" is that these people are stark raving mad. In the third paragraph, for example, the author quotes one woman as saying "What still strikes me, is I'll go to a party in New York, and inevitably the craziest person there is a psychiatrist. I mean the person who is literally doing childish antisocial things, making a fool of himself and embarrassing everyone else...
Julie A. Aasen, manager of Personnel Pool, said she placed the ad, but added that she was not filling any places for CHOA or 1-2-3 author Frederick R. Meyer...
...American astronaut. The localized pleasures in each chapter -- Barnes is both erudite and witty -- are somewhat diminished by the suspicion that the end design will amount to no more than academic playfulness. There is much to savor in this book and a little to deplore, including the author's determination to indulge himself instead of his readers...
President of the East German Union of Writers. A well-known Establishment author, he has called the refugee exodus a "defeat." He cautions against "pomp and ceremony and all this miserable smugness," and contends that the worst thing about East Germany is "the condition it is in today...
...brought to England with his family six years later and educated there. His two earlier novels were set in Japan, but this one displays a sure grasp of another island culture -- England's -- that has been notoriously impervious to outsiders and immigrants. Furthermore, the young author writes with assurance about events that took place before he was born, and he does so in the utterly convincing voice of an aging Englishman...