Word: saul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FICTION: The Age of Wonders, Aharon Appelfeld ∙ The Dean's December, Saul Bellow ∙ A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone ∙ The Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Carroll ∙ Memoirs of a Space Traveler, Stanislaw Lent ∙ The Villa Golitsyn, Piers Paul Read
...MIGHT HAVE expected it of Saul Bellow Perhaps it was the Nobel Prize. Or maybe it was the Pulitzer, which the cunning novelist deserved and derided for so long that they finally gave it to him for his last novel. Humboldt's Gift in 1976 More likely, it was simply has own realization that he, certainly as much as any other American now writing had the talent and breadth of vision to take stock, as he might say, in a big way. The creeps and crazies, the depressingly sane, the visionaries--Bellow has claimed them all as his province...
Some of the previous lectures have been writer and poet Robert Penn Warren. Paul Freund, Loeb University Professor Emeritus, novelist Saul Bellow, and historian Barbara Tuchman...
...Saul Bellow falters somewhat in The Dean's December. It will not stand as his best book, probably not even one of his best three of four. It is, nonetheless, reassuring in a strange way that the shortcomings of the work are due to experimentation and imperfect exploration and not to any diminution of the genius which made him one of the country's finest writers...
Harvard Police have not notified the alumnusof the impersonator's scheme. Saul! L. Chafin, chief of Harvard police, said yesterday, Officials from the Registrar's office were unavailable for comment yesterday on whether they notified the alumnus...