Word: authorly
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...necks of a veritable legion of Roman Catholics. Today they have fallen so far from favor that their mention draws blank looks from some Catholic Gen-Xers. Why? Inhibitions unintentionally fostered by the Second Vatican Council may have had something to do with it. And certain women, writes author Sally Cunneen, were "inoculated against" the Virgin as they embraced feminism. Those inspired by the upcoming season to reflect on the Heavenly Mother's ups and downs (as well as those who remembered to celebrate the recent Feast of the Immaculate Conception) will lose themselves in two current books: Cunneen...
...LAST SIGH (Pantheon). Salman Rushdie's first novel since The Satanic Verses exuberantly details the protagonist's absurd fall from the grace of a wealthy Indian childhood into the hands of a madman who plans to kill him once the story ends--an interesting motif for this particular author. But the hero survives, and Rushdie's bountiful comic narrative triumphs...
...RENT (the musical). Even if author-composer Jonathan Larson had not died just weeks before its off-Broadway opening, Rent would have hit like a thunderclap. A rock update of La Boheme set in the age of AIDS, it brimmed with energy, lyric intelligence and streetwise spirit. If not quite another Hair (more memorable melodies would have helped), Rent brought the old-fashioned musical resoundingly into the '90s. Then it moved to Broadway, won Tonys and...(see below...
...author of the well-known development text, Economics of Development, Roemer was also an established academic. In addition to the textbook, he co-edited several volumes focusing on reform of economic systems and the application of Asian development lessons on African economies...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Ice on the moon? Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey thought it possible, back...