Word: novelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bellow had expanded A Theft to a full-length novel, he could have developed all these interesting characters and fully organized the scattered plot. On the other hand, he could have easily condensed the book into an effective short story, focusing on Clara and eliminating useless characters and anecdotes...
...Class, a 1985 novel romanticizing Harvard in the 50s-by Erich Segal '58, masters wheeled and dealed their way to secure the 'best' students...
...part of the novel, Eliot House Master John Finley '25 explains to underclassman Danny Rossi, a musical genius, why he had been assigned to Eliot, which Rossi considers full of "smug preppies." Finley says, "I wanted you very badly, Daniel. I had to trade the master of Adams two football stalwarts and a published poet just to get him to relinquish...
...Satanic Verses kept sparking repercussions around the world last week. The Riverdale Press, a New York City weekly, was fire-bombed, possibly in response to an editorial championing the novel by Salman Rushdie. In California offended Muslims are believed to have tossed Molotov cocktails into two bookstores selling the book...
...Tehran, Iran's parliament voted to cut the Islamic Republic's relations with Britain if Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government did not officially denounce Rushdie's novel. Britain responded with a carrot and a stick. Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told the BBC World Service that Britain understood why Muslims criticized the book and said it was "offensive" for comparing Britain to Nazi Germany. But he emphasized that nothing justified Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's order to kill Rushdie...