Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What we took was essentially a novel approach to dream research," says Hobson, who received an M.D. from Harvard in 1959. "Nobody had ever studied the electrical activity of the individual [brain] cells during sleep. What we did was use microelectrodes in the brain to see what was going on. We put them under the bone and aimed them at the cells where we thought REM was occuring and put an object on the bone to measuere the output...
...turner could desire. Lessing's style is straightforward, sometimes almost telegraphic: "In September, of the year Ben became eleven, he went to the big school. He was eleven. It was 1986." This spareness suggests parable, a single accessible version of complex truths. Yet beneath its clear surface, Lessing's novel roils with several possible meanings. Perhaps David and Harriet, in their zeal to create a haven for themselves and what they call the "real children," have blinded themselves to humanity that lies "outside the permissible," beyond their constrained definitions of themselves. Maybe Ben represents a dangerous, violent streak...
Sugarman's spirited confection was installed anyway, and still stands. Other works have not been so lucky. Last year the Washington State legislature voted to remove from its chambers murals it had commissioned in 1980. Artists Alden Mason and Michael Spafford went to court. In a novel ruling, State Superior Court Judge Terrence Carroll held that the works themselves had rights that prohibited their destruction, though not their removal. But Mason, like Serra, says his work is site specific and that moving it is tantamount to destroying...
...exaggeration and somewhat cavalier regard for reality that Mallon displays in Arts and Sciences help to brighten a novel with a potentially depressing theme. Mallon says his novel is "really intended as light entertainment." "There's a great element of silliness in the book," but that "does seem to go along with the territory...
Mallon says he had not visited Harvard since his graduation in 1978 at the time he wrote the novel but relied entirely on memory for his description He says he is currently working on a book about the history of plagiarism and has begun "nibbling" on a novel based on his childhood...