Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to miss helping to make everybody'sprivate life public," wrote one author of thecolumn upon leaving the staff...
...Will Self approached the podium with a beer in his hand, and without even reading from a text he recited a lengthy short story which he had learned by heart. Hagar ironically states that is was "recited quite beautifully...a morbid, witty short story." Albeit while the author was "drunk?" Will Self was not drunk. He simply veered away from the conventional and often stoic approaches to giving a reading by bringing a beer to the podium. He was still nursing in after the hordes of "old people" had finished getting their books signed...
...author is a member of the Radcliffeclass of '45. She was an economic historian on thefaculty of Boston University...
Lily Feidy doesn't think so. "Who will restart the intifadeh?" she asks. "People are exhausted." Speaking for the Israelis, author Meir Shalev agrees. "This is not a peace of the brave, nor the peace of friends, nor the peace of the wise," he wrote in the daily Yediot Ahronot. "It is the peace of the tired." Neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians, it may be, have the spirit to return to out-and-out confrontation. But if progress toward a final agreement requires enthusiastic and broad support, it is difficult to see right now where it will come from...
...Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst," says Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus and a longtime Gates watcher. According to G. Pascal Zachary, author of Showstopper! (Free Press; $22.95), a book about the making of Windows NT, the company is the model of a new, postmodern corporate culture, perfectly suited to survive in an era of rapid technological change. The Microsoft way, says Zachary, writing in Upside magazine, is neither purely individualistic (the American approach) nor consensus driven (the Japanese style) but a third way he calls "armed truce," in which employees are encouraged to challenge everybody, even...