Word: julians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PAIRING OFF by Julian Moynahan. 252 pages. William Morrow...
...Julian Moynahan is one of those novelists who are cursed with a shorter attention span than their readers. His style is to restlessly gad about-from character to character, from scene to scene -always in the name of art, of course. Between the lines one can almost hear him learnedly murmuring the standard excuse: "Just reflecting the fragmentation of contemporary experience...
UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT Julian Bond, LL.D., Georgia legislator...
...showdown came last month, when Haney and Head Astronaut Deke Slayton collided over whether or not the press could witness a lunar-landing practice session. Slayton won, and four days later NASA's chief public affairs officer, Julian Scheer, gave Haney the news: he was to lose his voice job and accept a special post out of harm's way in Washington. Haney flatly refused the new job, describing the proposed move "like being kicked out of the game on the two-yard line after coming 98 yards down the field." Scheer quickly accepted his resignation...
This last is just the sort of phonetic parallel Nabokov relishes. Similarly, he is fond of insisting that, with minor adjustments for Julian and Gregorian dating systems, he shares an April 23 birth date with William Shakespeare. But then, he adds, "So does Shirley Temple...