Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THAT cry of controlled anger comes from Soviet Writer Yuli Daniel, who is serving the fourth year of a five-year sentence at hard labor for "slandering the Soviet state" in his short stories that were published abroad. Daniel is in a labor camp at Potma in the Volga basin, along with Fellow Writer Aleksandr Ginzburg, whose crime was compiling a record of the February 1966 trial of Daniel and Writer Andrei Sinyavsky (who is serving his seven-year sentence in another part of the same camp, also for "slandering the state...
...imperturbably went on to read aloud his full printed report on Brown's: "a standby of the elderly," "generally (not always) comfortable," with some rooms that "are horribly cramped and inadequate." Included was a typical Fielding tip: "One infuriated Guidester warns that every voyager should always check against being short-changed in the dining room here. (In fairness, we gave it a test on our latest Brown's Derby, and our bill was impeccable.)" At that, the assistant manager unbent. "You imply we are a bunch of rogues!" he stormed. "You say one thing and then the other. It seems...
...base. That book was the prototype of Fielding's Guide to Europe?chatty, chuckly, problem-solving, a little patronizing: ("Each regiment has its own barbershop, staffed by civilians. It's good and it's cheap. Don't think that you look like a monkey after your first 'G.I.' trim. Short hair is an Army custom.") Continuing to do magazine articles from Fort Bragg, Fielding met a Manhattan literary agent named Nancy Parker. He became her client?and two months later her husband...
...known as "the credit crunch." Restricting the nation's money supply in order to slow a rapid price rise, the Federal Reserve Board acted so decisively that the financial markets reacted with hysteria. Interest rates rose rapidly, the Dow Jones average sank 25%, and many lenders were so short of funds that it became extraordinarily tough for corporations to borrow...
What is left afterward is the impression of a few feverish laps around the laboratory, an oppressive feeling that the spreading bacteria may be less of a threat than the organized technology necessary to fight it. The book remains essentially a great short story, distended to novel length, that closes on a dying fall...