Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. The 1913 Beiliss trial, the Russian equivalent of the Dreyfus case, becomes an opportunity for Novelist Malamud to analyze the individual beleaguered by orthodoxies...
...wonderful alibi," explained one Parisian housewife last week. "You tell your husband you must go to the hairdresser. Then, instead, you send your wig and stay home to receive your lover. You retrieve the wig later and appear properly coiffed for your husband. Neat." As for Novelist Sagan, who was in New York last week promoting her new book, the failure of Americans to adapt to the new timetable was a bit tristessing. Gazing wistfully at the towers of Manhattan as the clocks struck 2, she said: "It doesn't seem to have caught on here...
Threat to Morals. Manet's scruffy friends were none other than the novelist Zola, the poets Baudelaire and Mallarme, the painters Monet, Degas and Renoir. He owed them all a debt, but most of all he trusted his own vision. "One must be of one's time," he said, "do what one sees without worrying about the fashion." Mallarme stated their common goal succinctly: "To paint not the thing, but the effect it produces...
Died. Ursula Hemingway Jepson, 63, wife of a Hawaiian banker whose father committed suicide (1928) in the face of a debilitating illness, but who always denied that her brother, Novelist Ernest Hemingway, had done the same (1961), contending that his gunshot death was accidental because "suicide was against all his convictions and principles"; apparently of an overdose of drugs after writing a despondent note about a long illness; in Honolulu...
Under the Weather. Saul Bellow, novelist (Herzog) and would-be playwright, cannot seem to decide whether women are a pain in the neck, a pain in the groin, or a pain in the psyche. In these three one-acters, the relations between the sexes appear more punishing than pleasurable, something men and women endure rather than relish...