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Died. Constance Garnett, 84, pioneer and most prolific English translator of Russian literature, widow of Essayist Edward Garnett, mother of Novelist David Garnett; in Edenbridge, England. Despite failing eyesight (she had to have the Russian texts read aloud), shy, scholarly Mrs. Garnett labored for 50 years over the prodigious task of translating the works of Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Chekhov, the best of Tolstoy, much of Gogol. Her translations are regarded as among the best in their field, were largely responsible for the role Russian literature played in the transition from Victorian letters to 20th Century realism...
...this union asked for conferences to discuss our grievances. Outstanding among these grievances which cries aloud for immediate adjustment is the deadly, brutal 54-hour work week underground in American coal mines...
...same reason that made James Fenimore Cooper an author. After reading an English novel aloud to his wife, he declared: "I could write a better story myself." When his wife dared him to try, he turned out the first of some 30 novels...
...bark, pounded it by the roadside for food; vendors sold leaves at a dollar a bundle. Ghostlike men were skimming the stagnant pools to eat the green slime of the waters. Once our horses sheered off violently from two people lying side by side in the night, sobbing aloud in their desolation...
Mike's Club never looked so clean before, or so barren either, Vag mused as he fitted, in front of a vintage car driven awkwardly by a man in a striped tie. "The Frappe Bar of New England," Vag read aloud from the booming plate glass pronouncement that garnished the sagging street corner. "What a tag for old Mike to conjure with. He wouldn't know his Club these days. But what would he know in Cambridge...