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...committee files into the mental boardroom. Literature degenerates into a responsibility. The Nobel Prize for Literature has of ten been set aside for the writer of greatest geopolitical obscurity (Yugoslavia's Ivo Andric, 1961). But the prize need not be a disgrace: a writer can rise above it. Saul Bellow (Nobel, 1976) has managed. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) has done what the greatest and liveliest usually do: he has made a world, a lost, magic place fall of God and demons and strange, tumbling life...
...Saul Bellow on Norman Mailer...
...Jersey, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Half the transcontinental system's capacity is devoted to development of an artificial intelligence for diagnostic medicine. At the moment, SUMEX's two bi-coastal computers also link 20 research projects in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. Says Saul Amarel, chairman of the Rutgers department of computer science: "The purpose of SUMEX is to help doctors match signs and symptoms and get not only some probable diagnoses, but information on drugs and their side effects...
...Robert Frost brings 25% less than he did a decade ago, Hemingway is barely holding, and Faulkner is sluggish. On the other hand, Wallace Stevens' rare first volume, Harmonium, $2 when published in 1923, can bring $800. The far more recent works of John Updike, John Cheever and Saul Bellow have done nearly as well. Some sharp collectors bought John Gardner's first novel, The Resurrection (1972), for cut-rate prices on bookshop remainder tables after the author's Grendel gained a national reputation. Current worth for a mint copy...
...faculty overruling of the CSL decision came after an impassioned plea by Biology professor Saul Slapikoff, who cited the CSL vote as an abridgement of the Tufts-JDL's constitutional right to freedom of speech...