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...late John Steinbeck's dull but competent retelling of Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's 15th century compilation, was published. Now Thomas Berger offers still another rex redux, in the form of "a legendary novel." He might have done better to call it a haphazard parody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chivalry Is Dead | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...advice to writers contains both wit and sober utility: "Avoid haphazard writing materials. A pedantic adherence to certain papers, pens, inks is beneficial . The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself. Speech conquers thought, but writing commands it ... Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Literary honor requires that one break off only at an appointed moment . . . Avoid everyday mediocrity. Semirelaxation, to a background of insipid sounds, is degrading." Benjamin ends his list with "The work is the death mask of its conception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Between Wars | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

They do not. Handke's techniques only seem casual, even haphazard; in truth, they are rigorously philosophical. His power stems from the very limitations he clamps on his art. While refusing to spell out anything other than rudiments, he hints at vast areas of life that are beyond the power of words to express or minds to grasp. By the standards of conventional fiction, his characters are little more than ciphers, but they arouse considerable interest and sympathy simply by facing up to the ominous atmosphere that pervades their lives. If something terrible has not already happened to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Formidable and Unique Austerity | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...Cross have been able to verify fewer than 100 European deaths among the more than 2000 Europeans in Kolwezi. And at least 20 Europeans may have been executed by Zairean army troops, not by the rebels. Ottoway reports that the victims, both African and European, "died in a mostly haphazard manner," singly and in small groups, with "no overall design for the killing or even the saving of lives, either by rebels or Zairean soldiers." He writes that many of the deaths may have resulted from the crossfire between rebels and French paratroopers, and that rebel commanders acted in many...

Author: By Neva SEIDMAN Makgetla, | Title: "Massacres" and a New Cold War in Zaire | 5/31/1978 | See Source »

Harvard had an 8-2 lead by the end of the first quarter, as the Eagles' haphazard offense and horror-show defense virtually handed the game to the Crimson. It was the 15-4 at halftime, 21-4 in a scoreless third quarter for B.C., and then two fourth-quarter goals by the Crimson's Mike Ward rounded things...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Eagles Dare, Laxmen Laugh | 5/3/1978 | See Source »

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