Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people who rioted in Liverpool on the eve of the wedding. Not even the shock of the first riot death -David Moore, 22, run down by a police van during what was officially termed "mobile pursuit tactics"-could take the edge off the festivity. Australia's Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Patrick White suggested that the wedding was "a kind of rosy women's weekly romance to lull the more soft-centered among us and distract us from reality." There was, however, no sense that anyone wanted to forget the country's troubles. Said Donald Williams, 18, a skinhead...
...essay titled "On Being English but Not British," Novelist John Fowles equated Englishness with tolerance, reserve and justice; Britishness with imperialism, conformity and arrogance. "The Great English Dilemma," wrote Fowles, "is the split in the English mind between the Green England and the Red-white-and-blue Britain... The agonizing reappraisal we English-Britons have had to make of our status as a world power since 1945 in fact permits us to be much more English again...
...availability of word-processing programs for personal computers like Radio Shack, Apple and Atari, demand for home units has risen dramatically. Among the aficionados: Bestseller Luminaries Michael Crichton (Congo) and Alvin Toffler (The Third Wave). Spy-Master Robert Ludlum endorses the Atari system in magazine ads. Though Novelist Irving Wallace still writes on a 1920-vintage portable, he has promised his secretary a processor...
...glimpsed the handwriting on the prison walls. Erroll McDonald, Abbott's editor at Random House and one of his guides in the complexities of free life -how to order from a menu, where to buy toothpaste-noticed the ex-convict's tendency to "interpret indifference as rudeness." Novelist Jerzy Kosinski, who had had his own correspondence with Abbott since 1973, said, "Looking at him, I had the feeling there could be uncontrollable anger one moment and a very easy embrace the next." Finally, anyone who read his work noticed, as Kosinski did, that "he wrote in such...
...British Novelist Antonia White, who died in 1980 at 81, attended a school like Lippington (formal name: the Convent of the Five Wounds) with handicaps like Nanda's: she was the daughter of a classics master who had just converted to Roman Catholicism. Her autobiographical Frost in May, first published in 1933, has just appeared here in paperback, along with three sequels. As Elizabeth Bowen writes in the introduction, it is one of the best school novels ever written...