Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editorial-page column mailed by the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies was called "Harvard's Point of Order," by Mark Helprin, identified as a novelist and political writer. I can only assume that Prof. Safran endorses the incredible argument offered by Mark Helprin which had three main points: 1) That Prof. Safran's ties to the C.I.A. violate nothing--neither the university's rules regulating such ties nor normative/ethical rules governing scholarship and intellectual life; 2) that normative/ethical rules governing scholarship and intellectual life are humbug anyway, especially when set against the imperatives of state; and 3) that...
Thomas Keneally, 50, is an Australian novelist (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith), playwright (Bullie's House), screenwriter (Silver City) and movie actor (The Devil's Playground). The subjects of his nearly 20 books are equally protean: Joan of Arc, the U.S. Civil War battle at Antietam, World War I armistice negotiations, exploration in Antarctica. His 1982 volume, Schindler's List, set off a literary tempest: although it told of an actual German businessman who saved some 1,300 Jews from the Nazis, the book was awarded Britain's prestigious Booker McConnell prize for fiction, eligible apparently because Keneally used novelistic...
...house in House is a mid-sized gothic mansion filled with antique knick-knacks. That's where our hero, a best-selling novelist and sensitive Vietnam War veteran Roger Cobb (William Katt) goes to write his war memoirs...
Rare indeed is the mystery novelist who ages well. Agatha Christie lost her sense of humor, Dorothy Sayers her plot outlines, John le Carre his vital interest in the genre. But at 73, Julian Symons has just published perhaps his best mystery ever, a fiendish little puzzle that is elegantly written and pitilessly observed...
...most seductive figure in the clan, fluttering her eyelashes and flinging her hands up in merry confusion every time she gives another derailing shove to the rules of common courtesy. Her monstrous misbehavior is accompanied by an elfin, confessional grin calculated to excuse a multitude of sins. As her novelist husband, Roy Dotrice uses dottiness as an excuse for complete indifference to those around him: at teatime he fills and sips from cup after cup until he is surrounded by soiled china, then passes tea and edibles to each member of his family while every guest sits forlorn...