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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...
These authors praise their new ability to delete and move words and paragraphs at the touch of a few keys, and to enjoy automatic pagination, footnoting and regular book-quality right-hand margins. Novelist Stanley Elkin (The Living End), 51, professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was given the use of a $13,000 Lexitron by the school. Even before he was disabled by the disease, claims Elkin, the processor would have accelerated his output: "You don't have to screw around erasing and crossing out, finding a clear place...
...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...