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The Story of Rimini
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James Jones
James Jones 1921-77, American novelist, b. Robinson, Ill. Written in the tradition of naturalism , his novels often celebrate the endurance of man. From Here to Eternity (1951), his best-known work and the first of a trilogy, is a powerful story of army life in Hawaii immediately before the... 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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Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer , 1923-, South African writer, b. Springs. She published her first short story at age 15 and later many of her stories appeared in The New Yorker magazine. Her stories often combine the political and the personal, showing a fine sensitivity to the complexities of human... Read more |
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Remus
Remus ♂ According to ancient Roman tradition, the name of the brother of Romulus, co-founder with him of the city of Rome. In America this rare given name is associated particularly with the ‘Uncle Remus’ stories of Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908), Uncle Remus being... Read more |
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Deluge
Deluge , in the Bible, the overwhelming flood that covered the earth and destroyed every living thing except the family of Noah and the creatures in his ark . Archaeology has yielded little trace of the biblical flood, but some oceanographers and geophysicists have speculated that the actual... Read more |
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Bel
Bel an alternative form of the name of the god Baal, occurring most frequently in Bel and the Dragon, two stories included as a single item in the Apocrypha. The first relates how the prophet Daniel convinced the Babylonian king that the offerings of food and drink which were daily set before the... Read more |
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Johnny Unitas
Johnny Unitas 1933-2002 American football player Ignored and overlooked in his early years, Johnny Unitas went on to become one of the greatest quarterbacks in football history. Unitas, whose passing ability earned him the nickname "the Golden Arm," led the winning team in what is widely... Read more |
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Hannah Webster Foster
Hannah Webster Foster 1759-1840, American novelist, b. Boston. She was one of the earliest American novelists and her epistolary novel, The Coquette (1797), was one of the first of its kind in America. It was based on the story (well known at the time) of Elizabeth Whitman, a well-educated 37... Read more |
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`PEARL HARBOR' IS NO GEM, HISTORIANS SAY ACCURACY QUESTIONED IN DISNEY'S...
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It was James Jones who best captured life before Pearl
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At dawn they slept, but few remain to remember it
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Japanese internment camp reopens as bittersweet national park.
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