Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stupidity of the concept itself should be credited to Jack Finney, whose novel Marion's Wall was the basis for the screenplay...
...things have changed considerably--they're worse! Let us for example consider Harvard. Here we have one of the most prestigious collection of invisible minds north of Yale's Afro-American Cultural Center. Yet this obvious fact conceals a deeper truth. Unlike the principal protagonist of Ellison's novel Invisible Man, their invisibility is not due primarily to the refusal of others to see them. The reality is more tragic. They refuse to see themselves! Instead, many take refuge in the rhetoric of "racism at Harvard" as though matriculation at such heavenly institutions as Howard University or the University...
Boone, born in 1946 in San Diego, was a freewheelin' artisan, who never stayed in one place for long and dabbled in a little of everything. Not only was he involved in acting and comedy, but also he wrote a fairly successful off-Broadway play and a novel that received mixed reviews. In 1978 he was killed when his motorcycle collided with a margarine truck...
...year ago, Doris Lessing made the startling announcement that she had recently written two novels published under the pseudonym of Jane Somers. She said that she had engineered this hoax to demonstrate how hard it is for new authors to gain an audience. She also wanted an unprejudiced response to her fiction, "to get free of that cage of associations and labels that every established writer has to learn to live inside." This may seem a rather downbeat response to a worldwide reputation, but the point is valid. Lessing's reviewers and readers, familiar with such works as The Golden...
...socialist ) lexicon, but as though he had only just that moment discovered them, so that when he began, there was often a moment when people showed a tendency to laugh." But it becomes increasingly difficult to care about Alice and her confederates. They are looking for trouble, and the novel shows them stumbling erratically into it. The only question left hanging is whether they will harm innocent bystanders...