Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Takaki, author of Strangers From a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans appeared as the second of three speakers invited this fall by the Harvard Foundation to speak on racial and ethnic relations...
Throughout this fall's campaign, Cambridge rent control activists billed Frederick R. Meyer, author of Proposition 1-2-3, as "Public Enemy Number...
...poisonous for anaerobic creatures of primordial times. Evolutionary scholar Richard Dawkins argues that earth cannot be considered an organism because it does not reproduce. Gaian proponents respond that the increase of oxygen in the atmosphere was slow enough to allow the mix of life- forms to adjust, and physician-author Lewis Thomas answers Dawkins by coyly suggesting that, through space exploration, mankind may be acting as an inadvertent disseminator of earth's spore...
This is the unsettling world of Chris Van Allsburg. The children's illustrator and author creates books that abound in dramatic perspectives, teasing narratives and haunting, incongruous images. Other authors may try to improve children with edifying themes or thrill them with shocks; Van Allsburg, a small, shy man of 40, simply taps into their vast reservoir of mystery. "To puzzle children is more interesting to me than to educate or frighten them," he says. "I like to plant a seed that will start a mental process, rather than present...
...Author-illustrator Chris Van Allsburg would rather puzzle kids than teach them, and his 2 million sales suggest he's right. His latest: pictures for a retelling of Swan Lake. -- A Vargas Llosa novel...