Word: sheppard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strangers-red men, black men, and now, the deformed. If the new book seems less academic and theoretical than many of the author's earlier works, it is simply because, as Fiedler says, "you can't talk about abstractions when you talk about freaks." R.Z. Sheppard Excerpt "Children who are born legless or armless, their limbs amputated by a tangled umbilical cord, are sometimes hard to tell from true phocomelics, or seal-children, with vestigial hands and feet attached directly to the torso. But once identified, they are primarily felt as objects not of awe but of pity...
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Kanfer, Senior Writer R.Z. Sheppard and Associate Editor Paul Gray write most of TIME'S reviews. "To find a good book to review and to get background, we each read up to six books a week," says Gray, who once taught English at Princeton. Says Sheppard, who was editor of the book supplement of the now defunct New York Herald Tribune: "The question people always ask is, 'Do you speed-read?' No, I don't. Reading is a pleasure; like eating or loving, it should not be rushed...
...Sheppard's review of the new Dylan Thomas biography [Oct. 31], he mentions the '30s and '40s as being the time of underpaid poets. The tone seems to suggest that this is a thing of the past...
...water, there was the mass of buildings on the battery, but the lady of liberty was something else." It is a long way from Emma Lazarus' New York to Howard Fast's Beverly Hills, where descendants of immigrants cater to huddled masses yearning for TV. -R.Z. Sheppard...