Word: various
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposals would reduce in various ways the amount of charitable contributions that an individual could deduct from his taxable income. The proposals...
...Whether classrooms will be built in Roxbury or the students will travel to the various colleges for instruction...
...plan to send out letters to various professors here who sympathize strongly with us asking them to cancel classes during the week of March 4," Haseltine said. "We will ask other professors to hold discussions in their classes about the issues," he added...
...Right now, Portnoy's Complaint is an event," says Philip Roth. "In two years it will be a book." The event was preceded by an enormous advance buildup; excerpts from the book were reprinted in various magazines, and the more outrageous passages were quoted and passed around. Now an assured hit that was sold out in bookshops weeks before its publication date, Portnoy's Complaint has already brought Roth a $250,000 advance on royalties, $350,000 in paperback sales...
Bruno dies on the last page. Much of the book is taken up with an intricately choreographed, totally absurd mating dance set in motion around his fusty deathbed, as various relatives pursue each other in preposterous shifting triangles like the occupants of a French bedroom farce. They even fight a mock duel. Most kinetic is a cheerful, kindly son-in-law named Danby in whose house Bruno is dying. Danby begins by sharing his bed with Adelaide the maid, then flirts with his brother-in-law's wife and finally consorts with an ex-nun named Lisa...