Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to write a diatribe claiming that their overreaction to my stories is just an extreme example of the attitude I accused them of in the first place--an overblown chauvinism for their rather modest hometown--er, city I wanted to point out that when people publicly attack the place where I grew up, my city doesn't get up in arms about the incident. We, I planned to write, know we have a great community and therefore we aren't hypersensitive to criticism...
...just wanted to lot somebody at home know about this. I'd like the (Harvard) hockey team to know about it. I was thinking about rooting for Harvard, but I'm loyal to Duluth, too. For someone to go into a town he's never been to before and write something like this without provocation is incredible. This part kills me, where he says: The lack of support for the (Harvard) hockey team is sometimes frustrating...
...popularity reaches across all social strata, in all regions of the country," says Bernard Rath, president of the American Booksellers Association. Indeed, its publisher says that Iacocca has just become the best- selling nonfiction hardcover in history: more than 1.5 million copies are in print.* Hundreds of new devotees write to Iacocca each week, more than 25,000 during the past five months, often beseeching him to run for President of the U.S. In Washington, House Speaker Tip O'Neill says that Iacocca, with Senator Gary Hart and New York Governor Mario Cuomo, is among the most plausible contenders...
...only decent marriage in America." Her bright and handsome husband Michael, a professor at a Massachusetts college, is due to spend an academic year teaching in France. Ordinarily, the wife and the children, Peter, 9, and Sarah, 6, would go with . him. But Anne has been asked to write the catalog for a new exhibit of the works of Caroline Watson (1864-1938), an American artist whose once lustrous reputation could now stand some repolishing. The job requires regular trips to Manhattan and periods of peace and quiet about the Foster household. Michael flies off to France, and the first...
...Talmudic scholar in charge of Nixonian ethics, Goodkind has little to do except write his memoirs. This device allows Wouk to play his own inside- outside game: the surreptitious satisfaction of the autobiographical urge through a fictional character. Presidents and Prime Ministers aside, the novel is patterned on the life and times of Herman Wouk, 69, the author of The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance. Wouk and Goodkind were born in the same year in The Bronx. Both are sons of laundry owners. Both share Russian-Jewish ancestry and religious orthodoxy. Both author and character...