Word: saul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nonsense prose prohibits moral posturing. All of these stories were written first in Yiddish, a language that draws rough vitality from the vernacular; Singer has seen to it that his many translators preserve the outspoken qualities of the originals. (Gimpel the Fool was rendered in English by Saul Bellow, a rare instance of one future Nobel laureate transcribing another.) And the passage of time has ratified Singer's vision of the living and the dead busily coexisting. The places of many of his stories are no more, their inhabitants long since slaughtered or dispersed. But they exist on these...
...shelf life of a book is measured in days, the average $2.25 per paperback could no longer be considered an impulse-buying item. The result: of the 900 million paperbacks shipped last year, nearly one-third were unsold. The paperback recession was echoed in the diminishing rewards to writers. Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift brought $313,000 back in 1975, but The Dean's December earned about two-thirds of that sum this year, even though the author had become a Nobel laureate in the interim. E.L. Doctorow's Loon Lake (1980) got one-third...
...vintage cartoon by Saul Steinberg shows a baroque room, all gold and curlicues; in it, a maestro is delicately prodding at a canvas filled with a grid of straight lines - a Mondrian, pure and polemical, red-yellow-blue-gray-white-black, utterly incongruous against the florid décor of the 19th century. How could Europe produce the painting within 70 years or so of finishing the room? That in effect is the question posed by "De Stijl, 1917-1931: Visions of Utopia," an exhibition that opened last month at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and will...
...apartments at 84 Prescott St. are not owned by Harvard University, and the University police department will play no role in the investigation of Lobig's death, Harvard Police Chief Saul L. Chafin said yesterday. Chafin refused to comment further on the incident...
...armed with an unidentified weapon robbed a female undergraduate late Monday night near the entrance of Lowell House, Saul I. Chafin, chief of University police, said yesterday...