Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novel is too long, and the problem of superfluous sections is evident. Occasional poems and the section from a journal of "One of the first English-speaking explorers to enter North Dakota" do not fit into the context of the novel. But the prologue which tells of a man, lying beside his wife in bed, remembering a childhood race, is one of the most vibrant ever written. The symbols of the book are carefully introduced, but the reader, after finishing the book, is left uncertain as to whether the prologue is Woiwode's autobiographical note or the true...
...result is a fascinating picture of an ancient urban center. As described in the National Science Foundation journal Mosaic, the inhabitants of Teotihuacan lived primarily in windowless, one-story apartment compounds that opened onto courtyards. The compounds, which housed about 100 people each, were occasionally organized into barrio-like neighborhoods, but there was no real class separation in Teotihuacan. The researchers have found an almost haphazard mixture of classes and occupations throughout the city...
...Milky Way. Most scientists have believed that the source of the signals is somewhere in the giant galaxy of some 200 billion stars that includes the sun and its planets. But a University of Maryland astronomer has a different idea. S. Christian Simonson III concludes in Astrophysical Journal Letters that the source is a separate pint-size galaxy-the Milky Way's closest cosmic companion...
...biography. Lewis makes use of some almost painfully revealing source material on their affair, including the private diary Wharton addressed to Fullerton and the love poems he inspired her to write, as well as correspondence from his jealous cousin and fiancee, Katherine Fullerton. Skillfully integrating the poems and journal entries with his text, Lewis illumines both the depth and power of Wharton's feelings for Fullerton and her yearning to escape the solitude that afflicted her before she met him. Initially unsure of his reaction to her, Wharton writes: My poor 'ame close' barred its shutters and bolted its doors...
...Wall Street Journal editorial then criticized Harvard for considering Kearns's tenure on the basis of "scholarship she would never publish" and charged that Goodwin's participation would turn Kearns's book into a "polemic...