Word: novelists
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...Mexican novelist diplomat Carlos Fuentes this afternoon's principal Commencement speaker brings a unique background of political involvement and literary reflection to the Tercentenary Theater podium...
...Fuentes was never a "confrontational leftist," Womack said. Instead, the novelist-diplomat is a "traditional Mexican nationalist." Fuentes was "one of the most active intellectuals" in Mexico's National Liberation Movement, an early 1960s coalition of leftists within Mexico's ruling Revolutionary Institution Party (PRI), he added...
...year-old Fuentes, also a prolific playwright, critic, and novelist, has taught and lectured at over a dozen U.S. universities, delivering last year's Spencer Lecture at Harvard. Currently a resident of Princeton, N.J., he is adjunct professor of English and Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania...
Black artists have in the past often rejected America. Some, like novelist Richard Wright, turned to communism others emigrated. Even today, many American Black artists look to Europe for inspiration and Hudlin says. Black films in particular owe much to Ingmar Bergman and other European filmmakers Hudlin makes Black films that are in tune with the American tradition. His favorite directors are Howard, Hawks and John Ford. In his own work, he plans to explore what he calls "Afro Americana "that is, the part of American culture which is Black...
That hasn't stopped some from trying. One of the class's celebrities (a group which includes the Governor of West Virginia, who couldn't spare four days off), novelist Erich Segal says he finds Harvard selling a bit too hard. The Harvard of his novel Love Story. Segal says, "was fiction. It was Shangri-la This is trying to make that fiction a reality. We've all come here to believe that fiction. The object is to make you cry, like my book, but you know what the difference is? Love Story costs you two dollars and 50 cents...