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...group's theology--a combination of Christianity and science fiction, with elements of Hinduism mixed in--was the work of 66-year-old Marshall Herff Applewhite, one of the 39 dead. The son of a minister, Applewhite taught music at several universities in the 1960's, marrying and having two children. He was dismissed in 1971, reportedly after a sexual liaison with a male student, and he sought therapy for a "cure" for his homosexuality. Applewhite then met a nurse and astrologer, Bonnie Lu Trusdale Nettles, who led him to believe that the pair were aliens incarnated on earth...
...distinguished German publisher, Piper Verlag (with whom I had no contact whatsoever) took the highly unusual (and highly unprofitable) step of destroying the entire print run of the book and cancelling publication shortly before its release date. It was clear that the book was more in the genre of fiction than of reportage or history, that it was making untrue and harmful charges and that it did not meet the minimum standards of veracity and probity that responsible publishers require. Before The Crimson printed Sack's piece, did it bother to find out this easily ascertainable information that this discredited...
...rests. The Big Lie works like this: over and over, despite each piece of evidence to the contrary, politicians insist there's no quid pro quo. People can give money to campaigns or parties, the pols say, but the donors get nothing from the government in return. Repeating this fiction obscures the obvious point: why would hardheaded businessmen give hundreds of millions of dollars--$262 million, the Federal Election Commission reported last week--without the prospect of getting something in exchange? But so long as no one shatters the myth, the laws won't be changed...
...turned out pithy, highly polished prose in a variety of genres, including travel writing, memoirs (A Cab at the Door, 1968), biographies, novels (Dead Man Leading, 1937) and numerous collections of literary criticism and short stories. He was a rare book reviewer who could also create memorable fiction. His stories, comic but sympathetic renderings of the antic aspirations of ordinary people, remained refreshingly old-fashioned and essentially timeless and enduring, given all the literary fads he lived through. Pritchett expressed his credo in the preface to his Collected Stories (1982): "I have always thought it the duty of writers...
...love. Hip-hop used to lift us above the struggles we faced; then it tried to inform us about the struggles we faced; now it's become one of the struggles we face. I used to tell myself that the "thug life" portrayed in the music was just fiction. Now it's incontrovertible fact. We can do better than this. If we don't, we're little more than voyeurs of our own demise...