Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They also set up their own newspaper and a radio station called Radio Vltava, which could hardly compete with the free stations. Russian security men began arresting liberal intellectuals who had caused chagrin in the Kremlin. Among those held under house arrest was Ladislav Mnac-ko, author of the novel The Taste of Power, who was locked up, along with the editors of Svobodne Slovo in the newspaper's office in Prague...
Townsend engineered Chrysler's comeback by combining novel marketing techniques with stability in product lines. An innovation, company-owned dealerships where there were none before, has paid off handsomely. Chrysler now has 512 dealers either leased or controlled by the company, and they account for some 27% of sales. Another innovation, the offer of a five-year or 50,000-mile warranty to customers, turned out to be one of the cleverest gimmicks in auto history. Insurance premiums to cover costs of repairs are, of course, included in the price that the buyer pays...
...first casualty is dignity; the sec ond, humanity; the last, life itself. In 1890, out of the remembered pangs of his own despairing struggle with dep rivation, Norwegian Nobel Prizewin ner Knut Hamsun wrote an acrid au tobiographical novel. Two generations later, Scandinavia's moviemakers have finally caught up with Hunger-and surpassed...
Pearson explains that the book is "more fact than fiction." That is just as well, since Pearson's fiction is pretty lifeless, even ranked with the this-is-how-it-really-is political novel. Pearson has the advantage when it comes to describing the intricacies of congressional maneuver. Still, none of the acts of avarice or ambition in the novel are half so convincing-or so appalling-as the real-life instances set forth in The Case Against Congress...
...morning-line odds are 99-1 against a young American writing a novel about contemporary Africa that is neither artistically pretentious nor piously angry, but just funny. Paul Theroux, 26, a former Peace Corps volunteer now teaching English at Makerere University in Uganda, beats the odds. He has produced a satire out of very unlikely material: a Chinese grocer struggling for survival in a mythical East African country...