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HERE'S A BRILLIANT, BROODING novel, a literary work of the first class, built around a confounding falsification by the author that reduces the entire book to the level of a clever and nearly meaningless stunt. Find an explanation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Parallel World | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

Gordimer spoke on the plot and themes of Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street. Without the quest for truth, "life would be meaningless," Gordimer said...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Gordimer Talks on Mahfouz Novels | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

...From the point of view of political philosophy, Marx was the first to argue that sex roles are meaningless," Mansfield says...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Milder, | Title: At Harvard, Marxism Quietly Goes Out of Style | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

...game wasn't over yet, of course, and Harvard added two more touchdowns before yielding a meaningless last-minute touchdown to Dartmouth, but the result seemed effectively decided by the momentum shift of Golla's score...

Author: By Peter K. Han, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Football Pulls Big (Green) Upset | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

Never before has the Nobel Peace Prize been so ironic and meaningless, Ironic, because the peace that it celebrates is still fragile and elusive, barely able to withstand the violence and hatred that is mustered against it. And meaningless because Yassir Arafat's hands are covered with the blood of the recently slain Israeli soldier...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: Nobel Booby Prize | 10/19/1994 | See Source »

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