Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know anything about it" said Thomas A. McMahon, McKay Professor of Applied Mechanics, calling serving on the committee a "new experience" for him. But McMahon, a published novelist, did say that politically he is "as red as a stoplight...
...members of Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) include the headmaster of a Boston high school, an applied mechanics and biology professor who moonlights as a novelist, and students from the Divinity and Dental schools, the University announced yesterday...
Nonetheless, some banking experts maintain that the agreement will not deter insider trading, but merely force the illegal transactions to be conducted in other banking havens, such as Liechtenstein, Panama or the Caribbean. Says Paul Erdman, a bestselling financial novelist (The Crash of 79, The Last Days of America), who spent ten months in jail for violating Swiss financial laws: "Insider trading will just have to be done a little more cleverly...
Friday. A salutary touch of malice gloriously unjust. She describes a visit to Novelist Elizabeth Bowen in Ireland, where other guests included Critic Cyril Connolly and wife: "There we spent one night, unfortunately with baboon Connolly & his gollywog slug wife Jean...
...more than 20 years, Bernard Malamud has been talking like a novelist engagé. Much of his fiction has explored Jewish "ethicality," which he defines as "how Jews felt they had to live in order to go on living." In 1958, the year he published his National Book Award-winning stories, The Magic Barrel, he said, quoting Albert Camus: "The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself." He has deplored the self-devaluation of modern man that springs from his having invented the means of his own extinction. It is no surprise, then, that his eighth...