Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...years he has predicted that country after country would continue to fall victim to Moscow's imperialism." In this period of increasing strain in U.S.-Soviet relations and world condemnation of the Afghanistan invasion, TIME sought the views of Russia's most famous living author. Blake, an acquaintance of Solzhenitsyn's and a scholar, translator and editor of Soviet literature, was an appropriate emissary. The result, which appears in this week's World section: Solzhenitsyn's stern warning to the Western world about the threats posed by Communism. Blake is well versed in the views...
...terminals function as video catalogs, offering indices by author, title and subject. Unlike card catalogs, the terminals respond to incomplete titles and names...
...most effective prop in Le Guin's act is the quick, sharp description, the vivid detail that lights up its surroundings. The author catches one of Hugh's fellow checkers with a single sentence: "She had a lot of dark red hair, which she had recently got made into a fashionable mane of curls and tendrils that made her look twenty from behind and sixty face on." She gives Mountain Town a medieval European feel simply by looking down at one of its narrow lanes, "so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps, like a person...
...grew up there: Elisabeth, 22, Caroline, 20, and Theodore, 15. An occasional antique betrays an interest in the past; Charles Le Guin, Ursula's husband of 26 years, teaches history at Portland State University. Only one touch suggests that the house is inhabited by a prolific, award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy: a gargoyle, purchased in Montmartre, hangs over the kitchen doorway...
...then began building a stellar reputation among sci-fi fans; her 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness won both a Hugo and a Nebula, science fiction's most prestigious awards. The Farthest Shore (1972) received a National Book Award. As the youngsters went off to school, the author fell into a writing schedule that she still maintains. She goes to her writing room in the house each morning at 9 and sits there for at least four hours, whether ideas are flowing or not. "You need a door to shut," she says, "although it doesn't necessarily...