Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contemplates the enormous challenges before her, Aquino can take heart, perhaps, from her rare gift for surprise. Stalin is said to have claimed that "you can't make a revolution with silk gloves." Edward Bulwer- Lytton, the British 19th century novelist, believed that "revolutions are not made with rose water." And Oliver Wendell Holmes pronounced that "revolutions are not made by men in spectacles." In coming to power on a wing and a prayer, Aquino has already disproved them...
...months later, when an immigration judge ruled on Randall's case, he also found her excludable. Like Mexican Novelist Carlos Fuentes and Japanese Novelist Kobo Abe, Randall had fallen afoul of the McCarran-Walter Act, a McCarthy-era law best known for its three provisions that bar entry to the U.S. for Communists and subversives, including anyone deemed to have advocated Communist ideas. Although the Government regularly grants waivers, critics say the law is still used to exclude those who merely hold unpopular ideas or who question U.S. foreign policy. Says Burt Neuborne, a New York University law professor: "McCarran...
...major contributor to the theater of the absurd (he prefers the term "theater of derision"), Ionesco reviews the influence of surrealists and dadaists without missing the historical joke: "They all wanted to destroy culture . . . and now they're part of our heritage." Arthur Koestler, a leading intellectual and novelist of the '30s and '40s, sounds weary and detached. "I'm vice president of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society," says the author of Darkness at Noon. The following year, he and his wife Cynthia would carry out a joint suicide pact at their London residence...
William Maxwell, novelist and former New Yorker fiction editor, is reluctant to talk about the magazine; but after saying that the "subject has been done to death," he adds "almost," and pages of anecdotes follow about Harold Ross, James Thurber, Wolcott Gibbs and Maxwell's "three wonderful writers all named John: John O'Hara, John Cheever and John Updike...
...motivating greed that drives the plot wound up being shifted from real estate to cocaine, and some of the gorier scenes were muted. "A horror film has to be delicate or it becomes a butcher shop," explains the author. There was also a larger difference. "When you're a novelist, it's all yours and your relation to the work is husband, father, grandfather and slave all in one. A movie director is directly the opposite: you're living out in the world...