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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite a disruptive protest by the Iranian Students' Association (ISA), Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT, and members of the Committee for Intellectual and Artistic Freedom in Iran (CIAFI) spoke to about 100 people at MIT last night on "the Shah of Iran's repression of human rights...
...later did post-graduate work at Syracuse University. Four years ago, she married a British anthropologist. The idea for Final Payments came from the old neighborhood. "I thought of women of my mother's generation who led sacrificed lives for someone in their family. There is a terrible human need when the body conks out, but no one in my generation gives over his life. I began by wondering what would happen." After the book was turned down by a couple of publishers, Gordon took it around to her Barnard teacher, Critic Elizabeth Hardwick. Her advice was to switch...
...legacy, from both sides, made Hamilton a kind of perpetual outsider, with a low and cynical opinion of human beings. He thought men must be led through their interests and vices rather than their affections and virtues. Left so vulnerable, he was obsessed by power and order. He sought father figures-a role filled for some time by Washington; he became Washington's de facto chief of staff at the astonishing age of 20. Hamilton was given to nervous collapses, irrational eruptions and an anxious preoccupation with personal glory. It seemed somehow right that such a touchy man should...
FICTION: Daniel Martin, John Fowles Final Payments, Mary Gordon The Human Factor, Graham Greene The World According to Garp, John Irving
...Human Factor, Greene...