Word: grendell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case began when a request for an alcohol permit by Grendel's Den restaurant was nullified by the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Armenian Church. The parish took advantage of a long-standing Massachusetts law which allows churches and synagogues to veto such requests from establishments located within 500 feet...
Several restaurants within that distance serve alcohol--including Ahmed's and Pizzeria Uno's across the street--but the church has nullified only the attempt of Grendel's, which is less than 10 feet away...
...added that, by issuing a selective veto, the church has unfairly hurt Grendel's business. Restaurant co-owner Sue E. Duelzer estimated yesterday that her business loses "10 or 11 customers a night," because it cannot serve alcohol...
...adventuresome fiction, enthusiastic teacher and, sometimes, messianic literary critic; of injuries sustained when he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed; near his home in Susquehanna, Pa., four days before he was to have married for the third time. A philosophical fabulist, Gardner wrote a dozen novels (among them, Grendel, 1971; The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972; October Light, 1976) in which he examined age-old questions like freedom vs. license through the prism of a gothic imagination that he said was set working by "the world of Walt Disney. I see those Disney images everywhere-in Dante, in Homer, above...
...bring $800. The far more recent works of John Updike, John Cheever and Saul Bellow have done nearly as well. Some sharp collectors bought John Gardner's first novel, The Resurrection (1972), for cut-rate prices on bookshop remainder tables after the author's Grendel gained a national reputation. Current worth for a mint copy...