Word: bellow
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...fair for a woman to give birth who will probably "not be able to care for or even recognize her child in a few years?" asked an editorial in J.A.M.A. In the arguments over life and choice, the right to have a baby is implicitly absolute. Saul Bellow's virility is celebrated when he becomes a father at 84, as is Larry King's when he has a baby at 65, months after angioplasty. Does a shortened life expectancy make a woman more unfit for motherhood...
Previous Jefferson lecturers have been Arthur Miller, James McPherson, Caroline Walker Bynum, Bernard Bailyn, Stephen Toulmin, Toni Morrison, Vincent Scully, Gwendolyn Brooks, Bernard Knox, Walker Percy, Cleanth Brooks, Sydney Hook, Barbara Tuchman, Saul Bellow, John Hope Franklin, Robert Penn Warren, Erik Erikson, and Lionel Trilling...
...Literatures Maria Tatar’s “Fairy Tales” party that includes chocolate-covered strawberries and cocoa at her home, or William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield’s receptions that have brought the likes of Tom Stoppard and Saul Bellow to Cambridge, among them. Many professors who have been bold enough to organize such fetes say that the benefits—both in and out of the classroom—are immense...
...Fox’s 1970 novel Desperate Characters in the library at Yaddo, the writers’ colony in upstate New York. Franzen pushed for its reissue, calling it “obviously superior to any novel by Fox’s contemporaries John Updike, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow.” Professionally, she is a Newbery Award-winning children’s author who is finally receiving accolades for her more mature works. Personally, she has been happily married for 40 years and triumphantly reunited with the daughter she reluctantly gave up for adoption so long ago. After...
...Nepotism is the name of the game, says Adam Bellow, the book review editor of The National Review. Think George W. Bush. Think Al Gore. Think Adam Bellow, the son of novelist Saul Bellow, and the author of "In Praise of Nepotism" (Doubleday; April). Says his publisher, "Nepotism, the favored treatment of one?s relations, is a custom with infinitely more practitioners than defenders - especially in America, where a 200-year war has been waged against it by the forces of enlightened reform. It offends our sense of fair play and our meritocratic ethos, where what we have is supposed...