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Died. Violette Leduc, 65, French novelist, best known for her candid autobiography, La Bâtarde (The Bastard); of cancer; in Faucon, France. The unlovely, illegitimate daughter of a housemaid, Leduc was a black marketeer during World War II; later she was encouraged in a literary career by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and Simone de Beauvoir. Leduc's first novels attracted only limited attention; La Bâtarde, with its explicit accounts of her gnawing loneliness and bisexual experimentation, brought her notoriety and financial success...
Down the right lane waited his beautiful witch of a wife, Maire, and the power and corruption of London personified by Gog's bastard brother Magnus Ponsonby, nicknamed Magog. In Magog it is learned that Gog went left and north to become a breeder of lobsters and delver into the mysteries of the ancient Druids...
...Segal himself seemed to look a bit leprous. "The very things I was doing before I went electronic were the very things that hung me, (like) the fact that I used to come into class at Yale with one note card. They would think 'one card--the bastard hasn't prepared!' In truth I had memorized almost everything. My students were unable to cope with the dichotomy of seeing me on television the night before and seeing me live in class the next day. I was functioning on the very premise that thay could. It was then that I began...
Segal's versatility has cost him. To be sure, Hollywood and New Haven are an unlikely combination. And by dealing in realms as diverse as the screen and scholarship he runs the risk of being considered illegitimate in each. Indeed, Erich Segal has been called a bastard on both coasts. Is it worth...
Robinson's face clouded with unfamiliar harshness. "It's bad for people to keep identifying Bennett as the only bastard on that Corporation," he said. "Bennett is not the only bastard. They're all just shades of the same horse and there's not much difference between the front and the back. The only difference between Bok and Bennett is that Bennett is more honest." Robinson, who had attended the Law School while Bok was there, added. "It said in this morning's Crimson that I was a good friend of his. I go on record as correcting that...