Word: pseudonymous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record straight. Replied Ben Tucker, Chief of the Office for Descriptive Cataloging Policy: "I wish to thank you for enabling us to improve our records." Henceforth, he said, the author would be listed not as Harry Patterson or even Henry Patterson but as "Jack Higgins," the pseudonym under which he wrote several bestselling thrillers, including The Eagle Has Landed, for a Stein competitor, Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...kind of Islamic existentialism taught by the scholar Mohsin Faiz. He also became fascinated with Aristotle and Plato, whose Republic provided the model for Khomeini's concept of the Islamic republic, with the philosopher-king replaced by the Islamic theologian. He wrote lyric poetry under the pseudonym "Hindi"-a fact that SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, later used to insist that he was Indian rather than Iranian by birth...
...little apart from the long and distinguished line of American newspaper humorists who preceded him, a line that is older than the nation itself. The first regular humor column in the New World appeared in Boston's New-England Courant in 1722 under the byline "Mrs. Silence Dogood," a pseudonym for young Benjamin Franklin. In one typical effort, Dogood/Franklin needled Harvard for turning out budding scholars who were "as great blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited." Well, it seemed funny at the tune...
...criticism is protean. It began 20 years ago when he was still a student at Xavier University in Cincinnati. William F. Buckley Jr., impressed by a Wills piece on TIME style, offered him reviewing assignments for National Review. He turned in so many that he had to use a pseudonym (William Roman) "to keep from clogging the pages...
...evidence of the Marx comic book which has been translated into seven languages and has sold 150,000 copies worldwide, the Donald Duck part of the effort is a success. Produced by award-winning Mexican Political Cartoonist Eduardo del Rio under the pseudonym Rius, the book relies on a barnyard of impish figures to add humor to the story of "Charlie" Marx ("Wasn't he one of the Marx Brothers?"one character asks early on). The book dances quickly through a field as woolly as the history of philosophy prior to Marx. For example, France...