Word: diarists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Muhammad Ali, heavyweight boxing champion --The American G.I., a soldier for freedom --Diana, Princess of Wales --Anne Frank, diarist and Holocaust victim --Billy Graham, evangelist --Che Guevara, guerrilla leader --Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay, conquerors of Mount Everest --Helen Keller, champion of the disabled --The Kennedys, dynasty --Bruce Lee, actor and martial-arts star --Charles Lindbergh, transatlantic aviator --Harvey Milk, gay-rights leader --Marilyn Monroe, actress --Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragist --Rosa Parks, civil rights torchbearer --Pele, soccer star --Jackie Robinson, baseball player --Andrei Sakharov, Soviet dissident --Mother Teresa, missionary nun --Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
These are not the sort of disclosures that usually stop presses. But what if the diarist was Anne Frank, the most storied victim of the Holocaust, the precocious prose stylist whose single published work has sold 25 million copies in more than 50 languages and has been required classroom reading for half a century...
ANNE FRANK What is there to know about her that she didn't tell us in her famous Diary? A good deal, according to journalist Melissa Muller, whose Anne Frank fills in, through interviews and research, the young diarist's world...
...gradual unfurling of the family secrets. A series of brief vignettes spanning more than twenty years, unevenly spaced and heavily concentrated in the days of the narrator's extreme youth, reveals information as the narrator learns it, Deane writes with all the immediacy and intrusive intimacy of a diarist, and even the wildest, most implausible developments in the tale seem like mere fact when conveyed in his narrator's steady voice...
...same time, the masculine grip on the House of Commons has finally been broken. What a parliamentary diarist once called "this delicious male, tawny place" will echo to the tones of 150 women, including a 100-strong Labour contingent. Some of the most spectacular Tory defeats were the work of women candidates, and women will make up more than a quarter of the new government. Blair, who is married to one of the most successful young lawyers in Britain, has no problems about working with women. One of his closest confidantes is his personal secretary, Anji Hunter...