Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lately, dissident literary figures have become targets of the crackdown. Two weeks ago, Lev Kopelev and his wife Raisa Orlova, both literary critics, left the U.S.S.R. for West Germany, following a long campaign of harassment and official vilification. Novelist Vladimir Voinovich complained last week that he could not obtain permission to emigrate, although a Soviet official had warned him that he might suffer an auto "accident" if he did not leave the country. One of the Soviet Union's most talented writers, Georgi Vladimov, has been under constant threat of arrest because he is the Moscow representative of Amnesty...
...reaction, hundreds of famous and distinguished Britons have petitioned the church to keep the 1662 book in the "mainstream of worship." Among signers: former Prime Minister Lord Home, Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, Historian Lord Dacre (Hugh Trevor-Roper), Conductor Sir Adrian Boult, Sculptor Henry Moore, Novelist William Golding, Lord Olivier and Glenda Jackson. Actor Paul Scofield says Britons feel "dismay" over the likely loss of so much "that is deeply poetic and influential in our language...
...story was front-page news in Britain. The day after her death, one tabloid ran a purported interview with Lady Barnett, complete with the headline "PLEASE HELP ME-I CAN'T STOP STEALING." The shopkeeper who had turned in Barnett received abusive letters. Wrote Novelist Penelope Mortimer, in the Evening Standard: "Isobel Barnett's disguise had been cracking for some time. No woman of her intelligence steals so clumsily unless she wants to get caught...
BORN. To John Ehrlichman, 55, domestic affairs chief during the Nixon Administration and convicted Watergate conspirator-turned-novelist (The Company, The Whole Truth), and Interior Designer Christine McLaurine, 32, his wife of two years: a son, their first child (she has a son by a previous marriage, he has five grown children by his first marriage, which ended in 1978 after 29 years); in Santa...
MARRIED. Gerald Green, 58, novelist (The Last Angry Man) who wrote the script for the Emmy Award-winning 1978 television series Holocaust; and Interior Designer Marlene Eagle, 46; both for the second time; in New Canaan, Conn...