Word: fictions
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...Real life" ordeals are more interesting today, and more bizarre, than anyone's fiction. But the phenomenon of ritual celebrity ordeal seems to foul up the judgment of journalists...
Novelist Jane Smiley won the fiction award for A Thousand Acres, a heartrending Americanization of King Lear in which a prosperous Iowa farmer divides his land among three daughters. Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet by Lewis B. Puller Jr. was cited in the biography category. Puller, whose late father "Chesty" was America's most decorated Marine, lost both his legs while serving as a lieutenant in Vietnam. The son's memoir provides unsparing commentary on how the nation has survived the agonies and complexities of that bitter conflict...
...imagine being brought up by parents even more confused; one is obsessed with atheist fiction and the other, with the Bible. One parent forbids you to watch television because it takes away "your intelligence and your concentration," and the other lets you sneak out of the house in the afternoon to watch television at a friend's house...
...fall semester for example, the Foundation was responsible for the course entitled "Latino Political Behavior," taught in the Government Department by visiting professor Rudolfo de la Garza; "Religious Traditions of the Southwest" (focusing on Native American Indian religion), taught in the Divinity School by visiting professor Inez Talamantez; and "Fiction by American Women of Color," taught in the English Department by visiting professor King Kok Cheung. The foundation has been responsible for numerous other visiting professors over the past years...
Yergin, a well-known expert on energy and international affairs, was awarded the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction category...