Word: leone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LEON TROTSKY translated by ANYA BOSTOCK...
Meeting Philippe de Vosjoli, former head of French intelligence in the U.S., was a lucky break for Novelist Leon Uris, who based his popular novel, Topaz, on Vosjoli's account of his experiences. Now it is Agent Vosjoli's turn to feel good about the whole thing. The Los Angeles Superior Court has ruled that Uris broke his contract to split the Topaz profits with Vosjoli and therefore must pay Vosjoli $352,350, plus interest, plus half of all future earnings derived from the book...
This prodigious output has already established Coles, 42, as the most influential living psychiatrist in the U.S. Black Psychologist Kenneth Clark says that Coles' quiet presence on the national scene "keeps morality, decency and justice alive." Leon Eisenberg, director of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, believes that Coles' work is an "effective prod to the social conscience of other psychiatrists...
HENRY JAMES: THE MASTER (1901-1916) by LEON EDEL 591 pages. Lippincott...
...almost 20 years Leon Edel's biography of Henry James has been rolling forth, majestic, involuted and nearly interminable, like one of the master's own sentences. Clear-eyed young students who began with Henry James: The Untried Years (1953) had turned middle-aged themselves by the time they popped on their bifocals to read Henry James: The Treacherous Years (1969). "How long, Leon, how long?" cried the reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement when the fourth volume appeared. With this, the fifth and final volume, the question can be answered: 2,152 pages. Edel has also provided...