Word: laboredness
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He was born to a Mississippi sharecropper and started his career with a $12.95 guitar. Now the value of Elvis Presley's multimillion-dollar empire cannot even be calculated (much of it is in future royalties). According to the terms of his will filed in a Tennessee court last...
He is Frederick Franz, a short and spry 83, who on June 22 quietly succeeded the late Nathan Knorr to become the fourth leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses. For a century now, this most contentious of faiths has pressed upon an unwilling audience the message that mankind is...
Van Nostrand, 54, is a graying, bespectacled and energetic Harvard Ph.D. (American literature). He had been lecturing on the American novel for 13 years at Brown when, in 1964, he volunteered for a job that his colleagues regarded with horror-teaching the required freshman writing course. His students, he soon...
Islands in the Stream, based on Hemingway's posthumous 1970 novel, is more serious. It is an attempt to capture the elusive strains of tenderness and generosity that could inform Hemingway's writing when he stopped beating his breast. But except for George C. Scott in the leading...
The problem is not, as a few literary purists suggest, an inherent lack of quality in any work that appeals to a mass audience. Popular fiction is an important art form, with its own distinctive rules and a few acknowledged masters whose works combine popular appeal with genuine literary flair...