Word: julians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge numbers in the U.S.S.R., but they are not always the uplifting tracts that Marx and Lenin envisioned as the people's literature. New police and spy thrillers and science fiction are snapped up by fans on publication day. The country's top mystery writer is currently Julian Semyonov, 48, whose latest, Tass Is Authorized to State ..., was published in an edition numbering 100,000 copies. It is the stirring tale of intrepid KGB agents vs. the CIA in an unnamed African country-manifestly Angola...
...DIED. Julian Parks Boyd, 76, former Princeton historian who headed one of the most monumental publishing ventures ever undertaken: collecting and editing the complete papers of Thomas Jefferson; of cancer; in Princeton, N.J. Boyd was the university's librarian in the 1940s when he launched the prodigious project, which may run to 60 volumes (19 have appeared so far) and which for almost four decades kept him happily immersed in more than 60,000 items of Jeffersoniana...
...Geological Sciences Library (GSL) will double its size and expand its collection by the beginning of the 1980-81 school year, Julian W. Green, head librarian of the GSL, said Monday...
...first meet in Blodgett Pool and it went down to the last relay. I got so excited that I wrote on my scorecard that Bobby Mackett and Julian Hack were swimming for Harvard," Daniel says, smiling at the memory of the successful outcome...
...what finally betrays the film is a redemptive ending. Having spent almost two hours getting Julian into a tight corner, Schrader cannot bear to leave him there. The picture ends with a cockamamie implication that love will conquer all -even the false, but seemingly airtight, murder rap. Such a conclusion betrays everything the film has so carefully built up -the easily victimized Gere character, the hypocrisy of the chic world he has risen to, the viciousness of the underworld which spawned him and retains its vicious claim...