Word: laboredness
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Kilgore Trout. The geography of Vonnegut's universe extends from the inferno of Dresden, where he underwent the fire-raids of World War II (Slaughterhouse-Five), to the purgatory of Ilium, alias Schenectady, N.Y., where he labored unhappily as a public relations man for General Electric (Player Piano). It...
Going public with Portnoy turned Roth into a hot property and brought him the awareness that "being famous was like being a box of Oxydol." Our Gang, The Breast and now The Great American Novel (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $8.95) definitely have extra-literary dimensions. They are also packaging and merchandising...
The Jesuits rose to eminence in the two centuries that followed Ignatius' death. Seeking to be the consciences of kings, they served as confessors to every French King from Henry III to Louis XV. In 16th and 17th century China, the great Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci and his successors labored...
Judged by many to be the world's greatest dramatic tenor, Melchior actually began his career as a baritone. For four years he labored without distinction. Then a colleague observed that he was "not a baritone, but a tenor with a lid on." Melchior gradually made the switch, but...
Every male chauvinist pig of a certain age can remember the movie, where the docile wife (played by Luise Rainer, German accent and all, for an Oscar) labored in the fields alongside her husband until the very day of their first child's birth-and went back to work...