Word: pseudonymity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OPEC's control of oil power is power itself--military power," in the immortal wordes of "Miles Ignotus" (Latin for unknown soldier), described by Harper's as a "Washington-based professor and defense consultant with intimate links to high-level US policy makers" and rumored to be the pseudonym for Edward Luttwak, a well-known conservative "defense" intellectual close to Washinton's defense and "intelligence community...
...self-consciousness is a simple kind, coming from the characters that often tell stories within Bashevis Singer's stories. In "Sam Palka and David Vishkover," for instance, Sam tells the recorder/narrator of his double life as a Park Avenue big-man nagged by his wife and, under the pseudonym of Vishkover, as a simple salesman in the eyes of a naive mistress. Sam's small pauses during the telling of his story, self-conscious caesuras like "Where should I begin?" or "Why drag it out?" or "Why go on?" pretty much mark the limits of the Bashevis Singer's interference...
...Society is also a pseudonym. As you drive out Concord Avenue towards Belmont Center, the middle of three innocuously drab brick buildings is labeled "American Opinion, 395 Concord Ave.," with a single large American flag dangling over the front door. Inside, the only open doors are to the right, in a sea of fake wood paneling. The doors lead into a bookstore where sits the receptionist, Sally Riley, amidst a welter of reprints, newsletters, magazines, bumper stickers, and books with screaming titles, blood dripping dramatically down the covers, chains a prominent motif, and "Conspiracy" figuring in almost every title. During...
Cheryl MaeClelland is a pseudonym for a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...four years before joining the French foreign service. Dark-eyed, mustachioed Leger served as secretary of the French embassy in Peking and later as adviser to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before becoming the highest permanent official at the Quai d'Orsay. He published his poems under a pseudonym to keep his official and poetic identities separate. In 1940 Leger fled to the U.S. rather than serve a French government that favored appeasement of Germany, and thereafter devoted himself to poetry. Though his output totaled a mere nine volumes, the influence of St.-John Perse was wide. His rich symbolism...