Word: timing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bearing Fruit. Toward this end, he turned to writing, supporting himself for 15 years with teaching jobs, and wrote part or all of at least a dozen novels. "I'm a great believer in natural organic growth. You grow a lot of things for a long time, and eventually something flowers and bears fruit." The first novel Fowles submitted to a publisher was The Collector, which was made into a film. After that, he didn't have to teach any more...
...young at heart, listen as "The Gingerbread House" is retold with a newfangled horror. Spellbound spectators, hear for the first time Noah's brother laugh, then rage, at the builder of the ark. And much, much more...
...aside to Cervantes, the ringmaster unveils the secret of his own technical trickery, the warping of time, the myth turned real and reality fantasized. "Your stories also exemplified the dual nature of all good narrative art: they sallied forth against adolescent thoughtmodes and exhausted art forms, and returned home with new complexities." Although Coover is often tediously complex, there is a certain madness in his method that just as often delights...
...afraid to show the biting edge of either-Acheson was not destined for public popularity as Harry Truman's Secretary of State, particularly in an era when careers could be smashed overnight by little more than whispered innuendoes of "Communist" or "leftwing" sympathies. Present confusions and elapsed time, however, have created new perspectives on the diplomatic problems and achievements of the Truman Administration...
...Betsy described a typical interview with a woman coming for advice about an unwanted pregnancy. "At least 50 per cent of them say that they weren't using a contraceptive at the time of conception. My response is, 'Why not? Didn't you know you could get pregnant?' Many say that it was the first time they had had intercourse without using one, or that it was the first time they had slept with anyone. They can't believe that one time...