Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must conclude, therefore, that unless some of the other Faculties in the University keep records of who is a Jew (which I strongly doubt), then Mr. Klitgaard has compared some Blacks to some Jews! This is quite different from the implications of the second paragraph of Mr. Burton Jablin's article...
...unable to control the terrorists, the outcry for law-and-order will doubtlessly escalate. In that event, the authorities must take care not to be more authoritarian than the fascist fringe. "Can we keep cool?" Rémond asks. "That is the wager." -By Stephen Smith. Reported by Sandra Burton and Alessandra Stanley/Paris
Back in 1971, Philip José Farmer abandoned the sci-fi world of space opera with a book that introduced this "Riverworld," titled To Your Scattered Bodies Go. In a tantalizing curtain raiser, Sir Richard Francis Burton, searcher for the source of the Nile, translator of The Arabian Nights, soldier, swordsman and linguist, dies in Trieste in 1890 (as did the historical Burton). Moments later-or is it millenniums?-he awakens, naked and bewildered, on the bank of the river. Burton's reaction is entirely in character. While other resurrectees stagger about in shock, the world's most...
...auspicious opening was a difficult act to follow, and many Farmerites wondered whether the Riverworld was wide enough to sustain a projected tetralogy. The author's next works allayed all fears. The Fabulous Riverboat gives Burton some delightful traveling companions. He and the grownup Alice Liddell Hargreaves (child model for Lewis Carroll's Alice) meet a cynical fellow named Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who constructs a side-wheel steamer to voyage upriver. The second volume also introduces Cyrano de Bergerac and England's King John, who attempted to steal the throne from his brother Richard in real life...
...history and myth, philosophy and ribaldry. With a cast of characters that includes Viking Warrior Erik Bloodaxe, Cowboy Star Tom Mix and a deck of World War I Flying Aces, its plot twisted to provide a climactic battle between Clemens and King John, and a final confrontation between Burton and the strange Ethicals who control the Riverworld, The Magic Labyrinth charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver's Travels and The Lord of the Rings. It also raises a few moral questions. Is Göring a villain or a political puritan who, "once having given his loyalty...