Word: memoirs
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...fact that 81 Congressmen had written in protest and that hearings were being planned on this exhibit and perhaps other trash-America exhibits at Smithsonian museums, he announced that Air and Space would display the Enola Gay with only a simple explanation of its mission and a video memoir of the crew...
...Jersey Zoological Park in 1958, where he bred endangered species to return to the wild-a controversial but ultimately effective program. Encouraged by his novelist brother Lawrence, he wrote a series of witty, educational musings on his life's work, such as The Overloaded Ark (1953) and the 1956 memoir My Family and Other Animals...
...supporters have pointed out that feelings of pity or guilt can be used by artists as a bribe, just as an unearned emotion of political solidarity was often used in the 1930s. But novelist Reynolds Price, who has survived spinal cancer and last year published an acclaimed memoir about his experience (A Whole New Life), wonders if Still/Here represents a new body of art that will be increasingly hard to ignore. "There are a tremendous number of people who survive in ways that wouldn't have been possible 20 years...
...longest new essay, ``No Law in the Arena,'' is a panorama of hot-button topics: rape, harassment, pornography, abortion. What makes Paglia infuriating and invaluable is her willingness to find, in these victimological issues, shades of male anxiety and female responsibility. There are also quieter pieces, notably a loving memoir of four homosexual friends who helped shape her sensibility. But it's silly to ask this brainy pipshriek to calm down; shouting is her form of conversation...
...McCarthy finds Charles Reich (The Greening of America) "smarmily loving" and feminist Germaine Greer "an absurd Australian giantess." Not to be outdone, Arendt declares Margaret Mead "a monster" and Vladimir Nabokov "an intelligent show-off." Her 1957 take on Norman Podhoretz, critic, editor and later author of the confessional memoir Making It: "one of these bright youngsters with bright hopes for a nice career." Only three years later, it is "little Podhoretz, already soooo 'tired' like the proverbial Jewish waiter...