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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writers who don't write and artists who don't paint, but nonetheless feel no shame in sitting around the Signet or Adams House or Pamplona or their rooms talking about the books that they're never going to write and the portraits that they're never going to paint because they're too busy sitting around talking about them...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Remedy for the Harvard Sickness | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

These are strange charges for Gingrich to bring, given his own spotty literary past. In the 1970s, Gingrich received $13,000 to write a book which was never published. When questioned about where the money went, Gingrich responded he spent it to "do research in Europe...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The GOP's Changing Guard | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

WITHOUT question, a scholar could write volumes exposing what some may euphemistically label "racially insensitive," or realists may more appropriately characterize as racist accusations and generalizations leveled against minority student organizations in Albert Hsia's editorial of March 9, 1989, "Minority Group Self-Segregation." The points that could be made would undoubtedly be quite valid, yet there is a deeper issue that might be addressed, Crimson responsibility...

Author: By Carlos R. Watson, | Title: Crimson Responsibility | 3/21/1989 | See Source »

...emphasizing the depth of Clara's love for Teddy. She seems to worship the "important person" but fails in her attempts to include herself in his professional political life. "When she came into her own, Clara thought, she'd set up a fund for him so he could write his views," Bellow writes...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: No Nobels For New Bellow Paperback Novella | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...candid and powerful inquiry into his parents, their union activities during the 1940s and their secret membership in the Communist Party. As Bernstein explains to his father, "It's a very personal book. It's not a history book at all." In fact, it is a book about writing a book, a book about Bernstein writing the book that his parents did not want him to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: My Father the Communist | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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