Word: authors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called a right-wing crank, a prolife nut, a religious zealot, inexperienced, Dr. Unqualified (the New York Times), scary (California Congressman Henry Waxman) and Dr. Kook. The intensity of the attacks was fueled by prochoice advocates who feared his opposition to abortion. In addition to being the author of several books, Koop was known for an antiabortion film he produced in which a thousand black and white dolls were scattered over the salt wastes of the Dead Sea to represent millions of aborted fetuses. Koop, who became an evangelical Presbyterian in his 30s, explains his views against abortion and against...
After getting assurances that he would be the sole author of the report, Koop took to the task with an open mind, consulting Government experts like the National Institutes of Health's Dr. Anthony Fauci and inviting more than 25 groups, from gay activists to the Southern Baptist Convention, to his office. He wrote 26 drafts at the stand-up desk in the basement of the brick house he rents on the campus of the NIH. He numbered the copies he took to a meeting at the White House and collected all of them to prevent leaks. The next...
...inability to resist them. A new neighbor, Tim Valentine, confesses to another sort of problem: an initial enthusiasm followed immediately by unmanning apathy. He has decided that he must be homosexual. Patrick's tasks include talking Tim out of this idea and keeping his own marriage from foundering. The author trots out these carnal misadventures with his usual comic flair. Patrick is a typical Amis hero, a young fogy who finds much of the world exasperating. Beneath the crackling surface, though, lies a more somber tale of people behaving badly and, in most cases, finally coming to their senses...
...author, then 36, used these private notes as warm-up exercises for the day's work. He gave himself pep talks: "This must be a good book. It simply must. I haven't any choice." To readers today, the fascination of this document rests in its portrait of an artist at the peak of his skills. Steinbeck's outrage at the mistreatment of Dust Bowl migrants in California, which he had witnessed firsthand, fused with his storytelling abilities to produce the most powerful book he would ever write. It won him the Pulitzer Prize and contributed mightily to his Nobel...
...bringing Shoeless Joe Jackson back to earth for one more game. The great outfielder may have helped throw the 1919 World Series, but the farmer idolizes him and his Black Sox teammates for their innocence! So with the help of his trusting wife (Amy Madigan) and a crusty black author (James Earl Jones) who doesn't mind that all the old major-leaguers were white, he plows down his cornfield to erect a ball park and populate it with phantoms...