Word: bernard
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Reported by Bernard Diederich and William McWhirter/ Kingston
None of the attempts to solve the Drood mystery is an aesthetic or financial success. George Bernard Shaw offers a reason: the novel was "a gesture by a man already three-quarters dead." Novelist J.B. Priestley counters, "Three-quarters dead though he might be, he was feeling his way towards yet another sort of fiction." That fiction is the modern mystery story, with its careful plotting, its characters subordinate to story, and its yielding of surprises as the drama moves toward denouement. To that end, Dickens wrote the only one of his work that can be summarized (although...
...labor lawyer: "For the first few years I'm sure we raised Abigail and Robin, our twins [girls, now 15] the regular way, surrounded by dolls and carriages." In 1970 Pogrebin, a Brandeis graduate at 19 who had risen to vice president of the publishing firm of Bernard Geis Associates, wrote a book called How to Make It in a Man 's World. Preparing for a publicity tour, she and Bert read the radical feminists - whom she then perceived as "the opposition." "We both argued ourselves into feminism," she recalls."I would say, 'They say a woman...
...analogue for the psychological violence of the cold war days, all pouty and conformist. She invests her love in new shoes and a blonde bleach job. The soundtrack is credited to Chris Stein, the other Blondie personage, but his electronic accompaniment resembles a melodramatic mix of Robert Fripp and Bernard Herrmann, not the band's dance beat...
...Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Information Processing recently elected I. Bernard Cohen, Thomas Professor of the History of Science, to its Board of Directors...