Word: novelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel scheme has sparked bitterness among Chelsea teachers and the school committee, who say it gives B.U. too much power. B.U.'s blunt-spoken president, John Silber, admits that the program "is not going to be run like a Quaker meeting." B.U. originally proposed that a university-appointed board would make most school decisions. Outraged school committee members successfully lobbied for the right to to overrule verdicts on the budget or school policy with a two-thirds vote. However, B.U. would still hold most of the cards...
These flaws were present in his earlier four-hour-plus documentaries on the Nazis, The Sorrow and the Pity (1971) and The Memory of Justice (1976). But The Sorrow and the Pity was, like a great realistic novel, dependent for its force on the patient, even repetitive, accretion of detail. By now, length and weight have become an end in itself for Ophuls, a way of enforcing the audience's commitment to his work. Anything that demands this much of us cannot be casually dismissed. Too much, though, is streaked with irrelevancies: digressions and dubious stock footage; interviews with people...
...Isaac Bashevis Singer continues to astonish. The King of the Fields is his second book of 1988. (The Death of Methuselah, a collection of stories, was published in April.) And this new novel, his first in five years, radically departs from nearly all his previous fiction. This time out, the setting is not a remote Polish village, the streets and cafes of Warsaw, or the expatriate haunts of Manhattan. "The story begins -- when?" This opening sentence is the Nobel laureate's typically no-nonsense way of announcing a narrative that will unfold in an indeterminate past...
...GRAPES OF WRATH. John Steinbeck's inflamed novel of the 1930s Dust Bowl migration becomes a ruthlessly unsentimental play-with-music by Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe...
...refusal to name the defendant is a novel idea, and one that is generating intense interest among lawyers. Our legal system is built on the assumption that justice should be impartially meted out and, thus, blind. But to insist that a case could be discussed and tried without the prosecutors knowing the identity the defendant is unfair. How are they supposed to fight a shadow...