Word: saul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of Amazonian Indians arranged in a circle around a standing figure, who seems to have his audience enraptured. The spectator recognizes the name of the tribe captured in the picture: the Machiguengas. He is also convinced he knows the identity of the mysterious speaker. It must be Saul Zuratas, a close friend when both were university students in Lima during the mid-1950s. But how can that possibly...
...American corporations have been eagerly pumping money into a market that once consisted mainly of lackluster small-circulation Spanish dailies. In 1988 the Hallmark greeting-card company bought Univision, the largest Spanish-language network in the U.S., from a Mexican media conglomerate for nearly $600 million. The year before, Saul Steinberg's Reliance Group formed rival network Telemundo, which teamed up with CNN to produce a competing evening national news broadcast...
...BELLAROSA CONNECTION by Saul Bellow (Penguin; $6.95). The Nobel laureate's second appearance of the year in a paperback original, this absorbing novella once again retails the dislocations -- wrenching, comic or both -- of being Jewish in America...
Some state teachers' unions have opposed legislation aimed at luring job switchers, arguing that it allows unqualified people into the classroom. However, many mid-careerists charge that the traditional system is too rigid, forcing even seasoned professionals to take two years of what New Jersey Education Commissioner Saul Cooperman calls "Mickey Mouse" education courses. Both camps agree on one point. Says Katherine Foster, 34, who gave up dentistry for the classroom to become a ninth- and tenth-grade teacher in San Benito County, Calif.: "Teaching is more rewarding than anything I ever imagined...
...Saul Bellow created a lot of excitement last March when he allowed his novella A Theft to appear as a paperback original, thus abandoning the hard covers that might have seemed more appropriate for a work by a Nobel laureate. Scarcely six months later, he has done the same thing again. Whether it makes commercial sense to flood the market with short books by Bellow remains to be seen. But book lovers, as opposed to bookkeepers, have every reason to cheer his decision to come ahead with more...