Word: greats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Show is as funny to this generation as Jack Benny's was 30 years ago, and Lou Grant's scowls are as familiar now as Groucho's raised eyebrows were back then. "Character is what fascinates me," says Brooks. "I love populated things. The great thing about literature is that it tells you that you are not alone...
...built Abu Simbel in the course of his 67-year rule, developed-well, a fungus and parasites. He was shipped to Paris to be cured of the condition. Back in Cairo, Ramses II went on display again, along with a plaque noting that in 1258 B.C. he and Hattusilis, great chief of the Hittites, ended a 20-year war with an agreement that neither would pass into the land of the other "or take anything therefrom." "Good, good," nodded Sadat, reading the plaque. Of course. It was a Middle East agreement 3,236 years older than his own Camp David...
...what may become an even longer series. That is good news, but the Shikastan habit of ignoring present pleasures in favor of a chimerical future should be avoided. For the moment, it is enough to welcome an audacious and disturbing work from one of the world's great living writers. -Paul Gray...
...remember the great beasts of Rohanda, the wonderful ancestors of these little animals, miniature lions and tiny deer and half-size elephants that seem to these dwindled people so enormous -yet to those who knew those vast wise beasts of former times, they are endearing, almost toys for children. The children are heartbreaking now. In those times, the children of the Giants, the Natives' children, were each one born after such deliberation, such thought, each one chosen and from parents known to be the best. . . each with such a long life, time to grow, time to play, time...
...karma, which he ran on his girlfriend Nicole. Quite cold-bloodedly, Gilmore murdered two defenseless men-a motel clerk and a law school student working as a gas station attendant. He also made repeated efforts to persuade Nicole to commit suicide in order to join him in the great beyond...