Word: sethe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, the mischievous British media tried to fan the flames of a feud between Indian authors Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth by reporting that Rushdie had dismissed Seth's epic 1993 best seller, A Suitable Boy, as nothing but a "soap opera." Seth denied that Rushdie had been snide, but it is a measure of Seth's extraordinary skill and versatility--his first novel, The Golden Gate, was a tale of San Francisco written entirely in elegant verse; A Suitable Boy was the opposite, a marvelous, sprawling, and gripping tale of Indian family life--that one wonders...
...Equal Music is almost unbearably sudsy, a huge disappointment for the legions of A Suitable Boy fans waiting to see what magic Seth could possibly spin next. Crammed with intriguing detail about the world of classical music, it is the story of Michael, a violinist in a string quartet, who is reunited with his long-lost love, Julia. But the writing is more than a little groan inducing: "She kisses me. I hold her in that soundless room, far from daylight and the traffic of Bayswater and all the webs of the world. She holds me as if she could...
Lane missed eight games with a broken thumb, and shortstop Seth Davidson (.356, 34 RBI) sat five games with a pulled quadriceps...
...There were a lot more rights under rentcontrol," Cavellini said. "But one thing we'velearned in this period is that you can still putup a good fight."Seth H. PerlmanCrimsonHOME SWEET HOME:BILL CAVELLINI, amember of the grass-roots group Eviction FreeZone, urges the Cambridge City Council to allocatemore money for affordable housing in a protestMonday morning outside City Hall...
Sophomore Mike Dryden got the start for the Crimson, giving up a run off two hits in two innings of work. UMass went up 1-0 in the second off a two-out single up the middle by Seth Kaplan...