Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rings with the heavyweights--Tolstoy and Hemingway and God knows who else--he was compelled to write a truly big book. Size alone, of course, was not the only requirement, though, to be sure, Mailer had in mind a book that the eye might train on, even on a shelf with Melville, Prost, and Dostoyevsky. No, more than that, the book would have to be big on imagination. It would have to be sprung in its entirety out of Mailer's white-maned skull, not a work which might have alleged against it the taint of journalism (notwithstanding...
...will leave the engineering of the new technologies to other schools like MIT and Stanford, which have done more work in the computer field than Harvard, according to Van Baalen. "We'll wait for [them] to build a better computer terminal and then we'll buy it off the shelf," he said...
...stake was not only the President's plan, which State Department officials concede has a "short shelf life," but whether any meaningful progress can be made toward Palestinian autonomy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip before Israel builds so many Jewish settlements as to virtually annex the territories. The Reagan proposal called for self-government by the 720,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in association with Jordan. Since Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin summarily rejected the plan, the U.S. has placed its hopes on King Hussein. If he would announce his intention...
...long shelf of Koestler's work (six novels, 30 nonfiction books), no volume is as memorable or seems more likely to last. This searing tale of the Soviet Union's 1936-38 purge trials, and the gradual extraction of a false confession from an old revolutionary, proved profoundly persuasive to readers throughout the Western world. It was a bestseller in the U.S., and a 1951 dramatization by Sidney Kingsley, with Claude Rains in the central role, was a hit on Broadway. Following Darkness, Koestler wrote several powerfully antitotalitarian books, including Arrival and Departure (1943) and The Yogi...
...grown dramatically since their birth in 1850, when the Corporation voted to gather a few stacks of official documents and bind them for posterity. Today, the collection consists of more than 90,000 feet of manuscripts, 250,000 photographs, and thousands of historic objects that occupy eight miles of shelf space...