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...more ideal recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature than Elias Canetti, 76, would have to be invented. When the Bulgarian-born novelist, play wright and essayist, with his Einsteinian white mane and mustache, arrives in Stockholm on Dec. 10 to claim the $180,000 award, he will precisely fit the Swedish Academy's taste in laureates. Canetti's sensibilities, like those of last year's winner, Polish Poet Czeslaw Milosz, are survivors of Europe's prewar culture. A poly lingual resident of England, who writes exclusively in a high, lapidary German, he is fashionably...
...killing of Dr. Herman Tarnower by Jean Harris was-in current parlance-an "upscale" crime. Accordingly, three upscale women were contracted to write books about it. Shana Alexander and Lally Weymouth are journalists with good exposure and better connections. Diana Trilling is a redoubtable essayist whose clear thinking and case-hardened prose have cut through much of the intellectual and political lard of the past 40 years...
...year-old poet and essayist said he has remained in close contact with the other KOR members since he came to Harvard last spring and added that he supported the decision to disband...
Quoting from prominent thinkers as diverse as Samuel Johnson. the 18th-century essayist, and Rep. Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.). an arch-conservative who has recently thrown his support behind the 1965 legislation, proponents of the existing legislation said it had vastly increased political participation among minorities, but that "insidious and sophisticated" discrimination still occurs in many states, and "more progress is needed...
Baranczak, a 33-year-old poet, essayist and literary critic from Poznan, Poland, was granted a passport by the Polish government this week after seven refusals. A founding member in 1976 of the Committee for Social Self-Defense, Poland's most prominent dissident group. Baranczak first applied for the passport in March, 1978, when he accepted a three-year associate professorship in Harvard's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures...