Word: greenberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College was determined to provide an audience for this spokenwoman for a vicious and corrupt minor dictatorship, it should at least have given her the reception--polite, but clearly disapproving--she deserves. Linda Greenberg...
...KING'S PERSONS (284 pp.)-Joanne Greenberg-Holt, Rineharf & Winston...
Smoldering Decay. Joanne Greenberg. a Colorado housewife and part-time medievalist, spent five years digging into the historical records on the York slaughter for her first novel. The result is a fascinating and minute examination of 12th century English life. The feudal structure was beginning to decay. Paranoid religious fanaticism sapped the strength of the monastic community, and the power of the baronies was gradually being clipped by the Crown. Lack of funds postponed the start of the Third Crusade, which was expected to revive both faith and the church's fortune. As setback piled on setback, the smoldering...
...Author Greenberg is placed in the ambivalent position of having written a bad novel and a good book. Her plot reads like a combination of Abram's Irish Rose and a study of that tedious 20th century malaise, Lack of Communication. But if her fiction is wanting, her historiography is not. With painstaking care, she has woven each of the skeins of medieval life into a vivid tapestry that shows the loutishness and insensitivity of the baronial landholders, the obtuseness of the peasantry, the twisted fervor of churchmen who found virtue in the wholesale slaughter of heretics...
While Lowell broke loose and ran to get a policeman, Burrows fought his way outside and locked himself in Lowell's car, which was parked in front of the shop. The four youths left Greenberg, and kicked in the right front window of the car, to reach Burrows, who escaped through another door. By the time Lowell returned with a policeman, the hoodlums had disappeared...