Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conspiracy, we just forgot to put the ad in." Crimson Advertising Manager Jonathan M. Weintraub '85, said last night. "We're not rich enough to leave out paid ads on purpose," he explained...
Colgate tailback Rich Erenberg enjoyed his third straight 200-yard rushing game as the Red Raiders walloped Penn at Philadelphia...
Lebanon? "It ain't our war!" barks Kimm's brother John, 28. But all mourn regardless. Each house around Letha Kimm's has a black ribbon tied to the porch. And in the rich, rolling countryside some miles east, Ed Kimm will soon be buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, not far from the graves of his father and brother...
Nearly 25 years after Goodbye, Columbus brought him early fame and 15 years since Portnoy 's Complaint made him notorious and rich, Philip Roth continues to be misunderstood, or understood too quickly. There are causes for confusion: the contrast between the high-minded explainer of literary culture and the unbuttoned comedian who writes America's most raucously funny novels; the zigzagging from realism to fantasy, political satire to slapstick; and the dual image of the Connecticut country gentleman and the writing drudge whose spiritual home is Kafka's Prague...
...this rich compendium, Novelist Mordecai Richler attempts to lift humorists out of the high chair and onto the Louis Quinze. He ransacks old collections and ranges through the century, from Stephen Leacock to Fran Lebowitz. Anything that smacks of adolescence is jettisoned: "You will meet with no Dorothy Parker here... I found her comic stories brittle, short on substance." And nothing mild is allowed: to go through Robert Benchley's work is "to discover a good many of his sketches astonishingly bland, disarmingly gentle." The 65 pieces that pass Richler's scrutiny are trenchant, acrimonious and sharp. Most...