Word: sauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Somerset Maugham, spinning yarns of jealousy and violence with the detached tone of a narrator who just happened to be on the scene when the gun went off. At other instances he is a Kafkaesque master of the parable. At still others he is as comic and trenchant as Saul Bellow: a pretentious artist declares, "I must create. This is a physical need with me." A writer who consents to meet with a wealthy vulgarian is enticed with promises: "In the other world, a huge portion of the leviathan and a Platonic affair with Sarah, daughter of Tovim. On this...
Sources said yesterday that Saul L. Chafin, chief of the University police, has promised the Harvard Police Association--the union for University police--that if the jury finds O'Connor innocent, the University will rehire him and give him back...
...Federal Reserve's dramatic tightening of credit will in time hurt every consumer who wants-or needs-to borrow for any purpose, from paying medical bills to buying a house. Says Saul Klaman, president of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks: "Those who need credit most will have the most difficulty getting it. That's the way it always is." As prices inevitably rise, says Charles Lehing, senior vice president of New York's Chemical Bank, the people who will have the most trouble will be those on fixed incomes. Adds Lehing: "Most of these people...
...Saul L. Chafin, chief of the University Police, said detectives assigned to the case are expected to complete their investigation today...
...novel fails. The immediate temptation is to compare Styron to Conrad; Sophie is Polish, and there are even references, late in the novel, to Conrad's Lord Jim. Styron searches for good and evil, for the vestigia that demons leave, just as Conrad did; he may even be answering Saul Bellow's Nobel Laureate call for a return to Conrad, for a return to what Conrad called the "permanent, enduring, essential" in human existence. But Styron doesn't know "the horror." These are small shoes in the footprints of sasquatch...