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John Updike
John Updike 1932-, American author, b. Shillington, Pa., grad. Harvard, 1954. His novels and stories, written in a well-modulated prose of extraordinary beauty and dazzling fluidity, usually treat the tensions and frustrations of middle-class life, often mingling the joys and sorrows of suburban... Read more |
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The Story of Rimini
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Near v. Minnesota
NEAR V. MINNESOTA freedom of the press is a bedrock constitutional principle. However, the presumption that the press cannot be restrained from publishing stories was not established until 1931, when the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697, 51 S. Ct.... Read more |
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Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan (Ian Russell McEwan) , 1948-, English novelist, b. Aldershot, grad. Univ. of Sussex (B.A., 1970), Univ. of East Anglia (M.A., 1971). His early short-story collections, First Love, Last Rites (1975) and Between the Sheets (1978), and novels, The Cement Garden (1978) and The... Read more |
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James Baldwin
James Baldwin 1924-87, American author, b. New York City. He spent an impoverished boyhood in Harlem and at 14 became a preacher in the Fireside Pentecostal Church. His first two novels, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), reflecting his experience as a young preacher, and Giovanni's Room ... Read more |
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short story
short story brief prose fiction. The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the "short short" story to extended and complex narratives such as Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. Most often the... Read more |
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Christian
Christian relating to or professing Christianity; a believer in Christianity. Christian is the name of the central character of the first part of Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678–84), which recounts the story of his journey to the Celestial City.Christian Brothers a Roman Catholic lay... Read more |
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Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata , 1899-1972, Japanese novelist. His first major work was The Izu Dancer, (1925). He came to be a leader of the school of Japanese writers that propounded a lyrical and impressionistic style, in opposition to the proletarian literature of the 1920s. Kawabata's melancholy novels... Read more |
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Alice Munro
Alice Munro 1931-, Canadian writer. Much acclaimed as one of the finest contemporary short-story writers, Munro is known for quiet, insightfully realistic, and irony-tinged works dealing with daily life, written in an elegantly unobtrusive prose. These tales are mainly about the lives of girls and... Read more |
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Turning punishment into instrument of love
...of some "church academics...scandal and cover-up in the...physical and sexual abuse, and...physical and sexual violence visited upon...for all our sins. It was...judgment story from Matthew...fate far worse than even...kind and the sexual kind that... |
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Faithful asked to repent for sins of the fathers
...commit or cover up? NEXT...Andrew's Church on Dublin...run by the church". St Andrew...make matters worse, when there...readings of stories of violence were from...physical, sexual and emotional...when the church authorities... |