Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shandler, the author of several cookbooks, sought solace in the usual place--her kitchen. The result, Estrogen: The Natural Way (Villard, $24.95), will be in bookstores next month. It contains 250 recipes that Shandler devised for foods to relieve her discomfort, including salad dressings and soups, muffins and mousse cake. Just one slice of mousse cake a day, she swears, keeps those hot flashes...
...People's Tragedy (Viking; 923 pages; $39.95), by Orlando Figes, a historian at Trinity College, Cambridge, deals vividly with starvation, disease, tribal hatreds, sociopathic blood lust, religious mania, governmental terrorism and most other sources of human misery. But the author's predominant diagnosis of what went wrong, on all sides and without letup, is that stupidity ruled--quite literally in the case of the last Czar, Nicholas II (who comes across here as dull-minded and weak), and his wife Alexandra (dull-minded and forceful). At a time when Russia might have been transformed by shrewd and humane reforms into...
...period, the latest for which statistics are available, saw the largest shift back toward segregation for blacks since the landmark 1954 desegregation decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. And black students are not the only ones to suffer increasing isolation. Notes education professor Gary Orfield, co-author of the study: "One of our most sobering findings is that the group that is going to become the predominant minority population in this country, the Latinos, is even more isolated than the blacks. They're being locked into inferior, impoverished schools, and that means their future is threatened." Orfield...
...purpose can be found for the existence of The Gospel According to the Son, it must be sought in Mailer?s interpretation of what Jesus? life and death actually mean," says TIME's Paul Gray. "That is fair enough reason to write a book, but merely attributing the author?s opinions to Jesus himself seems like dirty pool. Mailer?s Jesus remembers Satan?s words during the temptation: ?Your Father is but one god among many.? That is of course what the Devil would say, but Mailer?s Jesus comes to agree that his father is not omnipotent. Mailer...
...hard, sharp edges out of internal political debate," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. "He moderated the dialogue and helped people reach accommodations behind the scenes that they might not have otherwise been able to achieve." In addition to his presidential role, Herzog was a distinguished soldier, author and UN diplomat. In World War II, he landed on the beaches of Normandy as an officer in the British army, fought in the 1948 and 1967 wars and rose to become Israel's first chief of military intelligence. These experiences provided him with the fodder for several books on Israeli military history...