Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...written more vividly about today's troubled male psyche than the poet Robert Bly, author of the best-selling Iron John. In his new book, The Sibling Society, Bly argues that we have become a culture of squabbling siblings, determined to end authority. TIME asked Bly to reflect on the Unabomber suspect's behavior...
...more than just legends. Or so he later wrote. Like many of Schliemann's tales, this one may have been a trifle exaggerated. "In general, scholars accept the fact that Schliemann told a great many lies," says David Traill, a classicist at the University of California at Davis and author of a 1995 biography of Schliemann. The man was also a war profiteer, a dabbler in black markets and a smuggler, whose wheelings and dealings have three nations squabbling more than a century after his death. Schliemann did eventually find the lost city of Troy, near the Turkish coast...
DIED. RICHARD CONDON, 81, author; in Dallas. The movie made of his novel The Manchurian Candidate, a crazy quilt of Asian communists enmeshed with U.S. fascists, seemed fantastic at the time--until the political killing at its core was echoed in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Suddenly Condon's Freudian analysis of America as a nation of dark impulses, largely hidden from itself, was the only explanation that made sense...
Afrasiabi said he is convinced the faculty members at the center want to ruin him because of his criticism of them and his defense of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses...
James T. Grimmelmann '99-'98, co-author of the bill, says the problems with its implementation have been Lewis' or the council's fault...