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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Author Mary McCarthy, 74, seems in the mood to celebrate herself, she has probably earned that indulgence. For some 50 years she has reigned as the irruptive dark lady of American letters, a ferocious critic of everything from theater and books to U.S. society and foreign policy; a novelist (The Group, The Groves of Academe) with a reputation for settling scores by turning enemies into thinly disguised fictions. Hence, perhaps, the hint of smugness in the title she has chosen for the first volume of her projected autobiography. How I Grew has nothing to do with its subject's physical...
...that opens this book ("I was born as a mind during 1925, my bodily birth having taken place in 1912") and that keeps it moving ("I was an intellectual by the time I reached Annie Wright ((Seminary)). And no one else was"). Newcomers are likely to be baffled. The author keeps dropping Edmund Wilson's name and opinions without volunteering until the end the information that the famous critic was to be her second husband. Of the photographs that accompany the text, three include McCarthy's younger brother Kevin, a well-known actor, who is never mentioned by name...
...author sits at a rough wooden trestle table in his country house near Moscow, thumbing through a stack of page proofs for his novel. "This book is ^ about power," he says. "Stalin was consciously aware of the uses of power, the abuses of power, how to get power and how to keep power. He could have debated with Machiavelli because he would have considered that Machiavelli knew less about power than...
Many intellectuals consider Children of the Arbat to be the most important work of fiction by a Soviet author since Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, not least because it treats subjects that Soviet literature has never dealt with before. Rybakov's book is an attempt to come to literary terms with the Stalin era, just as Pasternak tried to give literary meaning to the Russian revolution and civil war of his own generation. But unlike Doctor Zhivago, which first appeared in Italian, Children of the Arbat is coming out in its author's native land and language...
...Cornell is concerned about its relationship to schools like Harvard and Stanford," said co-author Gates, a professor of English and Africana studies and Cornell's only Black full professor. "We set our goals in relation to them," said Gates, who is also the chairman of Harvard's Visiting Committee on Afro-American Studies and a research associate at Harvard's Dubois Institute...