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DIED. Will Durant, 96, Pulitzer-prizewinning historian who collaborated with his wife Ariel in writing an eleven-volume magnum opus, The Story of Civilization; in Los Angeles (see EDUCATION...
DIED. Ariel Durant, 83, Russian immigrant who as a 15-year-old student in 1913 married her American high school teacher, Will Durant, later collaborating with him on the eleven-volume magnum opus The Story of Civilization, and sharing with him the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for Rousseau and Revolution, No. 10 in their series; in Hollywood, Calif. Durant worked unofficially as a researcher and collaborator on the first six volumes of the series, but her name appeared as a coauthor on the last five, as well as on their jointly written A Dual Autobiography...
...host of lesser literati as a son of Kafka and a father of Ionesco, and seven of his books are avail able in English translation from Continuum Publishing Co. in the U.S. But, while Canetti's landmark novel Auto-da-Fé, originally The Dazzlement, and nonfiction magnum opus Crowds and Power have been occasional bestsellers in Central Europe, they never garnered a wide audience elsewhere...
Goodwin has quite thoroughly outlined his personal philosophy. His The American Condition, a book he calls "particularly difficult to read," is a summary of politics, his magnum opus. First and foremost, he says, it is a work of social theory. No one is writing social theory anymore, he laments; no one has an overview, they're all bogged down in their narrow fields...
...group of gun enthusiasts who feared that the N.R.A. was not diligent enough in its opposition to gun-control laws formed the Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Led by Lobbyist John ("Magnum") Snyder, a former Jesuit seminarian, the committee has nearly 300,000 members and a $1.7 million annual budget. Its monthly newsletter is called Point Blank. Another N.R.A. spin-off is the Second Amendment Foundation, named after the Bill of Rights provision that guarantees citizens the right to bear arms. A fourth gun lobby, the Gun Owners of America Political Action Committee...