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THERE WAS ONCE a time when being a writing teacher fell under the old aphorism that "Those who can't do, teach." Nowadays, however, the grim economics of the writer's trade make it almost essential that even successful authors and poets find a steady supplement to their royalties. The majority of America's best authors make at least a portion of their livelihood from teaching writing at universities, fulfilling the literary pretensions of the young while adding a little sparkle to dry English departments...
...compact scenes and entertaining dialogue. Says a matador out to impress the author with his knowledge of local history: "This is where the famous bandit Luis Candelas used to hide, Aline. He stole from the rich and gave to the poor -- just like your Robin Hat." The grim side of the job includes treachery and murder. To escape death at the hands of a Nazi strangler, Aline must shoot to kill. There are two happy endings to her story. She reduces the list of possible Himmler agents to a German countess, and lengthens her name by marrying a Spanish nobleman...
...Chicago-born son of an Armour meat-packing executive whose business travels took his family throughout South America, Reed has spent 22 years with Citicorp. But in many ways he remains an enigma, variously described by some of his fellow workers as icy and grim and by others as sensitive and humorous. One acquaintance says he has a "passion for detail and no time for mavericks" and that he maintains a studied aloofness with underlings. Associates consider Reed to be direct and serious, possibly to a fault. Says Investment Banker William Donaldson, a fellow outside director of Philip Morris...
Would that Elvis had followed this injunction regarding his slides and their grim meaning. Perhaps it is too much to expect of him, perhaps the audience's reaction shows that he is just a reflection of a more general misogyny. But this cannot excuse him. The slides, presumably added as humor, gave the concert a sinister feel. A musician need not be a propagandist of rape culture. David Woodruff...
...From the Butyrka interrogation, which he describes in considerable detail in the novel, he was sent into exile in a series of villages in western Siberia. Rybakov shows a visitor photographs of himself as a handsome, dark-haired young man with laughing eyes. Then he shows photos of a grim, tired, middle-aged-looking man with dead eyes. "The difference was only one year between these pictures," he explains. "I was very depressed after the arrest, for I had done nothing. But I soon found out from others that if you did nothing you only got three years...