Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their best, the electives have the intensity and ferment of Kelly Wise's novel and drama course. Wise's teaching style is vastly different from that of Georgie Hinman, a legendary Latin teacher of an earlier Andover who stabbed penknives into his peg leg to express disapproval and made students flush bad translations down the toilet. Wise, in contrast, has a more casual attitude toward the 14 seniors in his class. "I don't act as a sage," says Wise. "Sometimes I lie and dissemble and distort to provoke them, to make it impossible for them...
...first acts of rebellion in the camps were made possible by a miscalculation of Stalin in 1948. Desirous of worsening thelot of political prisoners, he established the Special Camps described in Solzhenitsyn's novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. For the first time, vast numbers of politicals (incorrigible "enemies of the people") were segregated from common criminals (redeemable "class allies"). Once free from the scourge of the murderers and thieves who terrorized them, the politicals gradually gained courage...
DIED. Sylvia Townsend Warner, 84. English novelist and short-story writer who probed the small conceits of her humdrum characters with a tartly satirical eye; in Maiden Newton, England. Warner met success early when her first novel (Lolly Willowes) became a premier selection by the fledgling U.S. Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926, but she showed an enduring talent with her genteel, Victorian prose (The Museum of Cheats, The Flint Anchor). A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she also won acclaim as a poet (Time Importuned), a translator (Marcel Proust on Art and Literature...
...much more, of course. He wrote furiously, turning out book after book that the world ignored. Murphy, his first novel, was rejected by 42 publishers. He complained bitterly: "I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It was not as though I wanted to write them." Compulsively, he kept on. Not until age 47, when Waiting for Godot created a sensation on the Paris stage, did Beckett escape a hand-to-mouth existence...
...backwoods weekly for which he sold ads, laid out pages and, incidentally, covered the news. He has been a White House correspondent, Washington bureau chief, columnist and bestselling author (A Time to Die, about his role as mediator in the 1971 Attica rebellion; Facing the Lions, a 1973 political novel...