Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The announcements caused a stir in Israel, where the reaction seemed to be admiration for Begin's boldness mixed with some misgivings about what the Tel Aviv daily Ha'aretz described as "deepening our involvement in the lives of [the occupied] areas." Washington reacted angrily. Israeli Ambassador Simcha...
DIED. Mark Schorer, 69, respected novelist, literary critic and biographer whose definitive work, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life, became a bestseller in 1961; of a blood infection following bladder surgery; in Oakland, Calif.
Other publishers waited for authors. Cerf sought them out and flattered, charmed-and signed up-some of the biggest names in the literary world. Together with Partner Donald Klopfer, he turned Random House, which they founded in 1927, into a pantheon of stars: Eugene O'Neill, James Joyce, Gertrude...
One night Cerf was having dinner with Sinclair Lewis when a phone call interrupted with the news that William Faulkner had suddenly appeared in town. Cerf thought the two famous authors might Like to meet, but Lewis would have none of it. "No, Bennett. This is my night," he declared...
Directed by LEWIS GILBERT Screenplay by CHRISTOPHER WOOD and RICHARDMAIBAUM