Word: writer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent a year in Atlanta, then moved to New York City, where he worked in several sections before writing about national affairs. He left TIME in 1963 to join The New Yorker. In 1980 Trillin published the novel Floater, which depicts the journalistic misadventures of Fred Becker, a newsmagazine writer who "floats" from section to section. Among the book's characters are Doc Kennedy, a medicine writer who keeps coming down with the ailments that he writes about, and Woody Fenton, a managing editor who communicates mainly with phrases like "Golly" and "Jumping Jehoshaphat." Alas, no mention is made...
...Peace and Anna Karenina translates into many languages, but Leo Tolstoy the social phenomenon is strictly Russian. Most biographers take this fact for granted. A.N. Wilson spells it out in his descriptions of that vast, isolated kingdom of the 19th century in which the roles of writer and prophet were frequently indistinguishable. Martine de Courcel strikes a deeper Slavic chord when she says that Tolstoy's aim was to become a Fool of God. Count Leo was, of course, no fool, although many of his truths never got off the ground. His moralizing often seems as windy and endless...
Elizabeth Spencer is often compared to another Mississippi-born writer, Eudora Welty. Sometimes Spencer's name is even mentioned in the same critical breath with Henry James. The comparisons are flattering, but to be measured against some of the best usually means never measuring up. Cold comfort then for Spencer, especially since so many writers today are overpraised on a narrower scale of accomplishment...
...which an American mother takes her beautiful retarded daughter to Florence. There the girl is wooed and eventually wed by a local boy. As a bastion of faith, culture and family traditions, that city seems a good place for a helpless young woman, and an evocative locale for a writer...
...notion of history and how to record it was, of course, rather different in the 1st century A.D. Like other ancient authors, the Gospel writers did not set out to produce records that meet modern standards of precision. Furthermore, they were clearly saturated with faith in Christ and were not necessarily objective transmitters of his story. Says Anthony Harvey, canon of Westminster Abbey and a New Testament scholar: "The writer of a Gospel is not just an editor but a creative theological intelligence, telling the story in a particular way to make a particular point...