Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most is knit, embroider and crochet. So assiduous is one character that she produces an antimacassar "somewhat above the conventional in length, being 1,358 yards, or some three-quarters of a mile .. ."-the perfect symbol for the futility and tedium of Oates' novel. -By Patricia Blake...
...human being? Malamud, who once called for fiction "filled with love, beauty and hope," has now written a novel filled with death, bestiality and despair. Why has he called it God's Grace?Even in fiction, his grace must mean more than man's disgrace. -By Patricia Blake...
...Corea and Gary Burton, some 500 people jammed into an auditorium with 400 seats. Conover took the microphone and said, "Hello, I'm Willis . . ." He got no further. The young people erupted in cheers. They had grown up listening to that voice on the short wave. -By Patricia Blake. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof and Jane Tempest/Moscow
...inspired cousin a 44-year sampling of her critical intelligence. Her rigor melted only once, when she read Doctor Zhivago for the first time. She wrote Pasternak: "This book must be possessed rather than read, as a man does not read a woman but possesses her." -By Patricia Blake...
...scheme devised by the Israeli National Labor Federation to bring homeless mothers with infant children from Lebanon into Israeli homes for several weeks. Such moves were admirable. But to the innocent victims of Israel's push northward, there was little that could justify the suffering. -By Patricia Blake...