Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Evidence of McVeigh's admiration for a novel called The Turner Diaries, published in 1978, will aid the prosecution's effort to portray him as a hate-filled radical. The book, a favorite of far-right groups, tells the story of a group of white supremacists who blow up FBI headquarters in Washington at 9:15 one morning--almost exactly the same time of the Oklahoma City bombing. The Turner Diaries oozes invective against blacks and Jews. "We have allowed a diabolically clever, alien minority to put chains on our souls and our minds," a passage reads. "Why didn...
...been permanently relegated to being a invaluable subject of academic research and a provider of military medals, fur hats and other stylishly hip cold war memorabilia. Gone are the missiles, air-raid drills, and fallout shelters. And Tom Clancy's early books can be safely relocated to the "historical novel" shelves of libraries nationwide. So why are we still so scared...
...BOOKS. . . MASON & DIXON: Although there are similarities of length and his trademark narrative rhythm, Thomas Pynchon?s new novel (Henry Holt; 773 pages; $27.50) is in some ways even more difficult than its famously challenging predecessor, 'Gravity's Rainbow.' This time out, the author renounces contemporary English speech altogether and casts the entire narrative in the 18th century diction allegedly spoken by a clergyman named Wicks Cherrycoke; he is the one who tells aloud the tale of his one-time acquaintances Charles Mason (1728-86) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-79) over what must have been an incredibly long night...
...third piece, the Schickalslied (Song of Destiny), the orchestra rejoined the chorus on a very crowded stage. The text of this piece is taken from a poem Friedrich Holderlin adapted from his own novel Hyperion. The poem glows in the first few stanzas, meditating quietly on the peace of heaven but shifts abruptly to stormy despair in describing "suffering mortals" being swept hopelessly from place to place...
...allows people to express and explore their private existence. "Fiction and drama--which students see more of, even on television or at the movies--have to do with a person's life in society: You usually have to have two people to make a drama, and a novel tends to have a wide social canvas...[But] the only place where you hear what the soul says to itself when it's alone is poetry...