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...best of his later novels (Arch of Triumph, The Road Back, The Night in Lisbon) dealt with war-wasted human remnants moving across a charred European landscape. Remarque, whose second wife was Screen Actress Paulette Goddard, once said that "hatred is not a good medium for one's lifework"; his own medium as a writer was pity and terror, conveyed in compelling prose and an exact sense of both person and place...
...Madison, Wis., received the telephone warning, a blast tore through the University of Wisconsin's Sterling Hall, destroying the math center and parts of the school's physics and astronomy departments. In the wreckage were the center's computer, valued at about $500,000, the lifework of five physics professors and the doctoral research of 24 Ph.D. candidates. And because the warning came too late, Physicist Robert E. Fassnacht, 33, was killed, and four other men were injured...
WEBERN: Complete Works (Columbia K4L-232). The brief, vital lifework of one of the pivotal figures of 20th century music, conducted by Robert Craft...
VICTORIAN MINDS, by Gertrude Himmelfarb. A first-rate historian culls the lifework of nine not-so-long-ago thinkers in search of the roots of some of the modern world's more piquant follies...
Dunn is presently at work on both a study of "Scots in America" and his "lifework"--a literary history of the twelfth century, a three-volume undertaking of which the first volume isn't quite finished...