Word: novelizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman was wearing sunglasses and sitting in a lawn chair under a tree. She was reading a romance novel and listening to the Boston Red Sox-Texas Rangers game on the radio...
Several organizations, including the activist Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the student government, attacked ROTC courses as being of "inferior intellectual quality" and the field for being unqualified as "an academic discipline." Many felt ROTC courses were too easy and that funding could be diverted to more novel areas, like the Afro-American Department, which was founded that year...
...sleeper in the Republican primary is Mike Antonovich, 46, a Los Angeles County supervisor who has toiled long and loyally in the campaigns of Ronald Reagan and California's popular Republican Governor George Deukmejian. Antonovich has some novel ideas (illegal Mexican immigrants should be stopped at the border by armed U.S. soldiers; gay men should combat the AIDS epidemic by going straight). He also has a habit of answering specific questions with tiresome civics lessons that begin, "Under our Constitution, there are three branches of Government...
Pena, Augustino, Weiss and most of the other major characters in the novel are purely fictional. Oppenheimer, Fuchs, Edward Teller, General Leslie Groves and other walk-ons bear the names of actual people. The author is conspicuously selective about players who are not wholly owned subsidiaries of his imagination. For example, there is a part for Harry Gold, a confessed spy and Government witness in the case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But missing from the book is David Greenglass, Ethel's brother and an Army machinist on the Manhattan Project who later testified that he had provided Gold...
More than a century after Charles Dickens' pageant of nameless benefactors, twists of narrative, and startling revelations, Journalist David Leitch, 45, appears with a document that ratifies the conventions of the Victorian novel. In the first volume of his autobiography, God Stand Up for Bastards (1973), Leitch recalled his adoptive parents and the mysterious couple who secretly and illegally relinquished their nine-day-old infant. "This title might seem like a calculated insult to my mother," he began. "In a way it is. But I have a sneaking hunch--and hope--that hard words may entice...