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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somewhat self-conscious being interviewed as a writer. "I only have two professions for two weeks in an interval of ten years," he claims. "In between everyone forgets about me." His new novel McKay's Bees is "a pretty well kept secret," he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Powerful Distraction | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...manner of rowing events will be on display, from the veteran single scullers (50 years old and over) who open the festivities to various combinations of two, four and eight rowers, including the mixed eights, four men and four women...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: 3200 to Join Charles Regatta | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Most of Gordimer's writings reflect her belief that artists, through the emotional force of their work, can transform society. She holds up two standards for artists--relevance and commitment, "the justification of the writer's existence and the source of communication with one's people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Artists' Commitment | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Serpentine. Tommy Thompson's new book about a daring criminal chameleon who stalks Asia in search of unsuspecting tourists, is the product of such a wedding. Thompson, best known for Blood and Money--a searching dissection of the bizarre sequence of Hill murders in Houston-does two things very well. He picks great subjects. You keep having to remind yourself that Serpentine is, after all, non-fiction. In fact, after reading a couple of Thompson's quasi-novels, one might accuse him of choosing topics that any garden-variety journalist could fish a bestseller out of. Grisly, morbid, sick, perverse...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A Snake in the Asian Grass | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Playing number two, the Harvard duet of Patty Vitale and Deirdre Wilde whistled by their opponents, 6-2, 6-2. Sara Nicholas and Janet Teltscher, playing their first match together, made a sterling debut, cutting down their opposition...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Netwomen Win; Look to New Englands | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

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