Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Applying that logic to Sears and the Government the way Morgan does may be novel, but courts have held that corporations do have rights of due process. One of Morgan's tactics has been used by generations of public interest lawyers: if the law is against you, argue broad questions of fairness and attack the harmful social effects of the law. Says Edward Ennis, an A.C.L.U. board member: "I find Chuck's argument extremely imaginative and original, and I'm pleased to see a civil rights lawyer making...
WITHOUT MARX OR JESUS, there's still lust; erotic desire galvanizes the nightmarish sweatglistening discotheque and toilet-stall world of Andrew Holleran's first novel. The title, of course, comes from Yeats' "Among School Children," as does the epigram, and the book emerges from Yeats, admixed with desire: desire, the force of the gyre spinning Malone and Sutherland and their coterie, binding them to the center till it scatters them like a merry-go round gone haywire; desire, the lesser mythology in the absence of religion, that turns the X's on a suicide note from crosses to kisses...
DANCER COMES REPLETE with the usual flaws of a first novel. Holleran is at all times too obvious; similies dominate metaphors; he tells too much. For example, he writes...
...number one priority is the perceptions of students," James P. Gleason, former Montgomery County, Maryland county executive, said yesterday. Gleason, who said he is disillusioned after 25 years of political life, will write a novel about the realities of politics during his fellowship...
That, at least, is the premise of Ron Rosenbaum's delightfully bitchy first novel, a tale of lethal venality among the nation's media mandarins. Rosenbaum, 32, is a former Village Voice staff member who protested Editor Clay Felker's 1974 takeover by ripping up his paycheck in the new owner's face (to which Felker is reported to have asked, "Who was that?"). In Murder, a Felkeresque press lord named Walter Foster loses his empire in an unfriendly takeover. Then, worse fate, he is displaced from his regular table at Elaine...