Word: subjectity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This, given Roth's previous intransigence on the subject, is a stunning concession. But before the champagne is uncorked and the balloons go up -- Roth has come clean at last! -- a little caution should be maintained. For one thing, the author essentially blames this book on a period of physical distress and mental depression that he experienced during the spring of 1987: "In order to recover what I had lost, I had to go back to the moment of origin." To an inveterate novelist, apparently, telling the truth is a manifestation of disorienting illness. More troubling, there is that letter...
...offers a memoir of his Vatican watching during those years that is at once authoritative and anecdotal. He treats each of the three Popes in this book as a unique individual who put his personal stamp on the church, but he is most fascinating on the subject of the present Pontiff, John Paul II. In a highly unusual private dinner with the author, the Pope confided that he "could sense" his own election near the beginning of 1978's second conclave. Wynn's most provocative assertion: the Vatican at the "highest level" believes that the Soviet Union engineered...
...subject Milken studiously avoided was the intensive 22-month federal probe of the junk-bond department he heads at the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm, but the matter soon forced itself on him. Suddenly his lawyer . was summoned from the room. Within minutes he returned and led Milken away. Down the hall the attorney informed Milken that a long-feared moment had arrived: the Securities and Exchange Commission was filing a weighty civil complaint against him, his employer and several colleagues...
...have to chose what kind of search to make. If we knew Jim Morrison had written a book, we could type in "AU MORRISON" to learn about it. But since we want all rock musicians, we'll conduct a subject search and type in "SU ROCK AND ROLL...
What to do about the situation is the subject of a simmering debate. Take unwanted pregnancies. While publicly funded abortion has long been accepted as a method of birth control among Chinese married couples, the state refuses to make contraceptives available to single people. Many unmarried women are thus driven to seek dangerous back-alley abortions rather than risk the scandal that would arise from exposure of their illicit affairs if they chose legal channels. "If we teach them how to prevent pregnancies, maybe premarital sex will become even more common," frets Liu. Still, Dr. Wu labels Beijing's stand...