Word: blacksmith
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Thomas Keneally, 50, is an Australian novelist (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith), playwright (Bullie's House), screenwriter (Silver City) and movie actor (The Devil's Playground). The subjects of his nearly 20 books are equally protean: Joan of Arc, the U.S. Civil War battle at Antietam, World War I armistice negotiations, exploration in Antarctica. His 1982 volume, Schindler's List, set off a literary tempest: although it told of an actual German businessman who saved some 1,300 Jews from the Nazis, the book was awarded Britain's prestigious Booker McConnell prize for fiction, eligible apparently because Keneally used novelistic...
Mishima's "Yoroboshi" and "Kantan": Blacksmith House, 56 Brattle St., Cambridge, Saturday...
...good dentistry has not necessarily been good for dentists. As they lose their bread-and-butter work, filling cavities, the nation's 127,000 dentists are scrambling to fill the gaps in their practices. Some fear that they may be going the way of the blacksmith. Says Dr. Ted Gordon, 62, who has been practicing in Chicago for nearly 40 years: "We're one of the few professions in history that has done everything in its power to put itself out of business." Dental schools, which were expanding until the mid-1970s, are now cutting enrollments. Total enrollment is down...
...enterprising classmate of mine went to a local blacksmith and had another clapper made," Fox says. "Then he said it (the original clapper) would appear outside Hollis South, where he lived." That, Fox says, is what started the riot...
...Dowayo language, which has four tones that affect meaning, is devilishly hard to get right. Barley tries to tell an important Dowayo, "I am cooking some meat," but the pitch is wrong, and his statement comes out as "I am copulating with the blacksmith." Everywhere he goes, the newcomer finds himself enmeshed in African webs of social obligation. Each time he gets into his car, a dozen villagers appear with luggage. All expect to be given a ride, plus money to spend, and most can be counted on to vomit inside the car at some point during the trip. Many...