Word: availed
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...prewar culture. A poly lingual resident of England, who writes exclusively in a high, lapidary German, he is fashionably obscure. He was praised by Thomas Mann and a host of lesser literati as a son of Kafka and a father of Ionesco, and seven of his books are avail able in English translation from Continuum Publishing Co. in the U.S. But, while Canetti's landmark novel Auto-da-Fé, originally The Dazzlement, and nonfiction magnum opus Crowds and Power have been occasional bestsellers in Central Europe, they never garnered a wide audience elsewhere...
Edinburgh's cargo was not forgotten either. After 1957, Britain lifted the ban on salvage operations that had been in effect because of the ship's war grave status. Several costly searches for the cruiser were made by British, Norwegian and Russian companies to no avail, since both British and German records had mistaken the wreck's actual location. But last week a team of civilian divers was laboriously bringing to the surface 23-lb. gold bars taken from the cruiser's ammunition room. It quickly became one of the most lucrative deep-sea salvage missions...
...year at the University of Georgia, but that doesn't faze him. After five years writing for Atlanta Weekly magazine, churning out features of up to 60 pages in length, Oney, with typical modesty, says "I think I know how to write pretty well now." And so he will avail himself of a fiction-writing workshop here, and let the creative juices flow...
...former English major is back at school, "doing really heavy course shopping," living on Harvard St., and appreciating the fact that, without the pressure of deadlines, "you can sleep till noon if you like." (He says, though, he probably won't avail himself of that privilege too often.) Under the Nieman program, he may audit as many courses as he likes but need only complete the full workload for one--a requirement he says will only be a problem "if I choose to concentrate in a science course...
Conservationist groups replied that the Japanese estimates were grossly overstated. But on the issue of the moratorium, their words, including President Reagan's plea to save "these magnificent creatures," were to no avail. It failed to get a required three-fourths majority. So did another proposal to stop all whaling in the North Atlantic...