Word: valdemar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sickly journalist led readers down dark corridors that still echo in American and European fiction. Edgar Allan Poe was, wrote D.H. Lawrence, "an adventurer into the vaults and cellars and horrible underground passages of the human soul." He told of disintegrating bodies (The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar), accusatory objects (The Purloined Letter) and doomed homes (The Fall of the House of Usher) -- all now standard props of horror. Once the genre was taken seriously, American writers as naturalistic as Jack London and as refined as Edith Wharton used those special effects and sojourned in those underground passages...
Representatives of Local 26--the hotel, restaurant, institutional employees, and bartenders union, concluded their presentation in favor of Valdemar Arruda, a University cook fired last year after he was convicted of arson--arguing that the 11-year employee had met the necessary conditions to be reinstated...