Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somewhat self-conscious being interviewed as a writer. "I only have two professions for two weeks in an interval of ten years," he claims. "In between everyone forgets about me." His new novel McKay's Bees is "a pretty well kept secret," he says...
...interim--his last novel, Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry, was published almost ten years ago--McMahon keeps up appearances as a scientist and teacher. His field is biomechanics--how people work as machines, why animals grow to the sizes and shapes they do, why trees assume graceful shapes. McMahon designed Harvard's indoor track, which features a specially cushioned surface that improves a good runner's mile by as much as several seconds...
...writing. Gordon McKay, protagonist of McKay's Bees, is a familiar name in Harvard science departments. About 50 scientists, including almost the whole faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department, owe their livelihood to his very large endowment. McMahon, one of the flock, pays tribute with his novel--"90 per cent of the book is lies about Gordon McKay," he says, though the last chapter, in which McKay returns to Cambridge, makes a fortune in shoe manufacturing, and befriends several Harvard faculty members, is "mostly true...
Liddy read him the sentence. After a long silence, Colby grunted. A grunt in CIA-talk means, "I just caught a slug in the gut," or "Sounds like you're novel's coming along nicely...
IMAGINATION did not agree with Liddy. He grew pale, his throat throbbed, irregularity plagued him. Still, he made no progress. On April 24, at 2:37 p.m., inspiration attacked. While thumbing through a Robert Ludlum novel, it hit him--characters. He swiftly plugged them into the plot: the "very Nordic" Rick Rand, suave financial genius; the "very oriental" T'sa Li, Rick's sex-hungry girlfriend; Mikhail Sarkov, KGB agent posing as multinational chairman Greg Ballinger; T'ang Li, T'sa Li's mammoth brother and Kung Fu expert. Liddy threw in a mafia don and several Company people because...