Word: bellow
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Other recipients were: novelist Saul Bellow, Canadian educator Northrup Frye, British diplomat Roy H. Jenkins, and educator James A. Shannon...
...honorary Doctor of Letters degrees were awarded this morning. Saul Bellow, the author of Mister Sammler's Planet. Herzog, Henderson the Rain King and The Adventures of Augie March, among others, is generally regarded as one of American's finest writers. Age 57, he was born in Lachine, Quebec, in 1915, and received a B.S. from Northeastern University...
...Bellow has taught English and creative writing at Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers College in Chicago, where he now resides, the University of Minnesota, Yale University, Bard College and Princeton. He was a Fellow of Branford College at Yale...
...citation for Bellow read: "A great American writer who depicts with sympathy the human comedy and brings us uncomfortably to face with ourselves--yet always on the side of life...
...Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler reflected gloomily that killing is "one of the luxuries. No wonder that princes had so long reserved the right to murder with impunity." Yet there has always been a democracy of homicide. Ever since Cain slew Abel, murder has been a classless crime. The East Harlem father who hurls his children from the roof is paralleled across the Hudson in the affluent New Jersey suburbs: a Westfield insurance salesman named John List was indicted last winter on a charge of shooting his wife, mother and three children and ranging four of the bodies side...