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A hallmark of literary modernism is the notion that readers must earn their places at the feet of the masters. Serious art requires extended initiations; Finnegans Wake is not for the fainthearted, nor will Proust reward the impatient. Isaac Bashevis Singer, 77, began writing at about the time that this...
In Boulder, Colo., the three county commissioners voted earlier this month to revoke their endorsement of a nuclear-disaster evacuation plan proposed for their city by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which administers the nation's civil defense programs. The switch came after more than 1,000 residents crammed into...
All in all, revolutionary fervor mounts high enough to lend credence to another program note on the play's history, which has become a theatrical legend: Originally written as a Federal Theater Project, Cradle was censored by its federal "employers," who refused to allow the actors to set foot on...
DIED. Philip K. Dick, 53, prolific, sometimes visionary science-fiction writer whose multilayered stories probed the discrepancies between illusion and reality; of a stroke; in Santa Ana, Calif. The characters in his 50 novels (Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said) were often ordinary people trapped in extraordinary circumstances whose distorted...
After about half an hour in the Lincoln Bedroom I returned to my White House office. Soon Nixon called. I must not remember our encounter that evening as a sign of weakness, he said. How strange is the illusion by which men sustain themselves! This evening when he had bared...