Word: randomly
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...found himself overshadowed by more urgent novelists, such as Richard Wright (Native Son), who played Malcolm X to Ellison's Martin Luther King Jr. Ellison compiled two volumes of trenchant essays but never finished his second novel, on which he worked for four decades. Joe Fox, his editor at Random House, says he was told neither the book's subject nor its title, only that it was "virtually finished." Fanny Ellison, Ralph's wife of 47 years, may know how close he came to completing the novel. But it is possible that he worried over it so long because...
Among all the random falsehoods the Crimson Key Society will gleefully propagate for the benefit of your innocent ears, there is one grain of truth: that is, God did attend Harvard...
...final piece of new business would haverequired the council to call 200 of the petition'ssignees at random and ask them which of the issuesthey wanted to see on a referendum. The councilwould then have put on the referendum any issuereceiving more than 100 votes...
Caleb Carr's shrewd and amiable entertainment The Alienist (Random House; 496 pages; $22) is a good psychological thriller, but what makes it exceptional is that it is also a remarkable time-machine voyage. Carr sets us down in New York City -- yes, there's the American Museum of Natural History right where it belongs, at 79th and Central Park West -- but the date is 1896, a year poised more delicately than most between past and future. Horses still pull cabs, but telephones are fairly common. New York is still a rowdy port city, but finance has replaced shipping...
...cocaine-scented parties attended by young women with few inhibitions. When Robb's Senate aides investigated the charges, they recorded their findings in private memorandums. The papers depict the Governor as having oral sex "with at least half a dozen women 20 to 25 years his junior at random times." His assistants also obtained information indicating that Robb had associated with "people who were heavy drug users and served federal prison sentences on . . . drug-related charges...