Word: authorly
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...William Strauss, co-author of "Generations, 13 GEN, The Fourth Turning," points out, the times are changing from the Generation Xers to the Millennium Generation. The Millennium Generation are those people born after 1982 and who present themselves as law-abiding and morally sound. The Gen Xers, born between 1961 and 1981, are without such character and are the drinkers and drug addicted students of today. Let's hope the Millenium Generation restores our faith in character, morals and respect for the law. -Richard V. Scali, License Commission Executive Officer
Brown was the author of the textbooks Social Psychology (1965) and A First Language (1973). Many of his contributions to the question of how and why language is structured can be found in Words and Things (1958) Brown published an autobiography, Against My Better Judgment,in 1996, which dealt with his homosexuality...
...Philip Roth specialty. There is precious little rural peace and harmony in this scorching novel about a prosperous New Jersey couple whose good life is destroyed when their daughter becomes a '60s terrorist. In Roth's earlier novels, parents tended toward the comic and repressive. Not here. The author renders the Job-like suffering of a father and mother over a lost child with characteristic emotional force and verbal energy...
...Small Things (Random House) Arundhati Roy's bold debut achieves an intensity that will feel familiar to fans of D.H. Lawrence. The author sometimes seems too clever for her novel's good, but her material triumphs. Three small children, a blue Plymouth and the lushness of southern India merge into a gripping story of passion thwarted by prejudice...
...Citizen Soldiers (Simon & Schuster) Stephen Ambrose, author of Undaunted Courage, last year's best seller about Lewis and Clark, thought there were still some untold stories to tell about World War II in Europe, and he was right. His mixture of narrative and oral histories brings to unforgettable life the G.I.s who slogged through...