Word: writings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neglected Lives may mark the arrival of a strong new force in fiction; still, it remains to be seen whether Alter can break out of the ultimately constraining parameters of trying to write the Great Indian Novel. For the present, however, Neglected Lives is a fine first novel, and the only thing a similarly-aged writer can do is be admiringly jealous...
...current media Schlesinger's book has received, at best, mixed reviews. He is called a "court historian of Camelot," and his remembers of RFK are called a view through the "rheumy eyes of an old Cold War liberal." It is a shame, many write, that such a wealth of information about Kennedy had to come from the typewriter of such a loyal adherent of the clan. That Kennedy was an idealist, they don't dispute. But they resent Schlesinger's portrait of Kennedy as an ideal idealist--an untainted saint. Sure, Schlesinger received a Pulitzer Prize for history...
...claimed the kiss-and-tell brunette, she had received between $35,000 and $40,000, which Shevchenko had been given by "a high official in the CIA." Later, at a Manhattan press conference, she added that Shevchenko had paid her in sequentially numbered $100 bills. She plans to write a paperback book, to be published this spring, detailing her experiences with the defector and the kind of security arrangements the U.S. provided...
...should also adopt techniques used in other countries. Canadians get generous tax deductions on money that they contribute to their pension funds. France permits anyone to put away some $20,000 in savings, with the interest payments untaxed. The Europeans further build capital by allowing companies to write off quickly the costs of their new plants and equipment against their taxes. Surely the U.S. needs to liberalize these depreciation allowances, says Feldstein, probably by letting the tax write-offs rise along with the rate of inflation...
...write about superabundance...