Word: writer
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...past and predicts the future. Shaplen is no dummy; when he doesn't know what will happen, he says so. On China, he writes, "No matter how many crystal balls one uses, it is patently impossible to foresee the future evolution of the Chinese Communist Party." Where a lesser writer would have struggled to find a trend, the seasoned journalist--whose 30 years experience has helped reveal the serious instabilities threatening every Asian nation--says what he feels...
...South American cities: "None of the Lagunas Verdes was green...Progreso in Guatemala was backward; La Liberated in El Salvador, a stronghold of repression in a country where salvation seemed in short supply." And his descriptions of the class stigmas on the trains and his interview with Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges are superb...
GREG FOSSEDAL MARK DIRECTOR LAURA SCHANBERG DAVID WILSON PANOS CONSTANTINIDES Staff Writer DARTMOUTH at HARVARD Dart 5-0 Harv 26-10 Harv 20-6 Harv 27-0 Harv 14-13 YALE at COLUMBIA Yale 28-7 Yale 41-4 Yale 28-7 Yale 20-3 Yale 21-7 COLGATE AT PRINCETON Colg 17-13 Pton 17-10 Pton 28-14 Pton 7-3 Pton 23-15 CORNELL at BROWN Cor 31-29 Cor 27-21 Bro 21-20 Bro 35-34 Cor 35-21 LAFAYETTE at PENNSYLVANIA Friday night at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. LAST WEEK sports editor The Dartmouth...
MASTURBATING HEROES dot Philip Roth's novels like so many used kleenex on the floor. But his 11th book, The Ghost Writer, would not be lightly tossed aside. It delves into the mind of a Jewish writer and surfaces only after revealing the harsh compromises that must be made to attain great stature as an author. One imagines Roth secreting himself one night in I.B. Singer's bedroom closet all the while scribbling a short story about what he sees. In the morning he discovers in his lap a small masterpiece, part autobiography, part fancy; but it is the whole...
...writer's self-sacrificial nature, insistent Jewish guilt, and sexual desire all torment Roth's hero, a young short story writer named Nathan Zuckerman. Nathan's dilemma concerns the purpose of his art: is his ultimate responsibility to himself or his Jewish heritage? Even the writer of the Bible must have paused to consider the personal and social consequences of his creation. In the end, Nathan, like Roth, chooses to write for himself and let the kleenex fall where they may. "There is obviously no simple way to be great," says Nathan...