Word: authorly
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Many people who falsify their experience, says author Sissela Bok, rationalize that "it helps me and it hurts nobody." They do not think about the qualified person who didn't get the job, the book contract, the government appointment. You have to wonder about the state of mind of the already successful people who lie when they know how easy it is to be tripped up. Are they self-loathers who want to bring themselves down, knowing they would get found out sooner or later anyway? Or are they overtaken by grandiosity, the need to be at the center...
...Quebec, Mordecai Richler would be Canada's second best Jewish novelist. That would be nothing to agitate a stick at. Most of Richler's 10 novels, which include The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and St. Urbain's Horsemen, are inspired comedies about Montreal's Jewish community, of which the author, now 66, remains a member...
...testified? Nydia Tobon, author of "Carlos, Terrorist or Guerrilla?" and an old friend of Ilich...
...that has approached the diary with the well-meaning intention of publicizing it has contributed to the subversion of history," charged novelist Cynthia Ozick in a recent New Yorker article in which she claimed the diary has been "falsified, kitschified and, in fact, blatantly and arrogantly denied." Ralph Melnick, author of The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank, contends that the play so carefully avoids the particulars of the Jews' plight under Hitler that it almost becomes "a drama of people who were suffering through a housing shortage...
Even when a Christmas program is really supposed to be about Christmas, the Christ part gets downplayed. The Soul of Christmas, a special on PBS (various dates) features Thomas Moore, the author of Care of the Soul, and a group of Celtic musicians. With this show, Moore wants us to see Christmas as an occasion that can be celebrated by "people of all faiths or no faith." No one wants to be a spoilsport and criticize such ecumenism, but you wonder at what point a religion's symbols become so generalized that they lose all meaning. Still, Moore might have...