Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...product. The leading companies, Hallmark of Kansas City and American Greetings of Cleveland, have roots that go back almost to the turn of the century, but they strive to be as innovative as fledgling Silicon Valley computer firms. The cardmakers are experimenting with different styles, coming up with novel reasons for people to buy their wares and using new technology that enables cards to play tunes or talk. Hallmark offers 1,200 varieties of cards for Mother's Day, the year's fourth-biggest card day (after Christmas, Valentine's Day and Easter), while American Greetings boasts...
When he turned to fiction, Hersey practiced what he called the novel of contemporary history. "The important 'flashes' and 'bulletins' are already forgotten by the time yesterday morning's paper is used to line the trash can," he wrote. "The things we remember for longer periods are emotions and impressions and illusions and images and characters: the elements of fiction...
...origins of Hersey's instructional impulses can be found in The Call, a novel cast as the biography of an American missionary in China. It is a subject that is close to home. Hersey was born in Tianjin, the son of Roscoe and Grace Baird Hersey, missionaries serving with the Young Men's Christian Association. Before returning to the U.S. in 1925, when John was eleven, the couple preached a social gospel that emphasized literacy and reform. It was a monumental labor complicated by floods, famines and warlords. Hersey provides the necessary historical overviews, but it is the abundance...
There are more inviting ways to introduce a 700-page novel, especially one that relies on the gradual accumulation of incident rather than the easy gimmicks of popular fiction. But there are no acceptable shortcuts in Treadup's journey of selfdiscovery or Hersey's exploration of the missionary character. Among his primary sources are the letters of his mother and father, although Treadup is not Roscoe Hersey, as the book's appended notes make clear, but a composite of at least half a dozen Protestant evangelists. As such, he can be a charismatic teacher who scoots around northern China...
...people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing." Other well-known investors were not talking about their tax-shelter troubles, but a clue to Jong's possible feelings can be found in a scene from her latest novel, Parachutes and Kisses, which is some what autobiographical. The book's central character, Isadora Wing, learns from her accountant that she may have to pay a million dollars in back taxes if one of her shelters, of which she is barely aware, is disallowed. "This was a nightmare...