Word: normans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Married Man, Piers Paul Read ∙Old Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett ∙Shikasta, Doris Lessing ∙Smiley's People, John le Carre ∙The Executioner's Song,Norman Mailer ∙The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth
Many of the other arts followed patterns similar to those in film and theater: a few standout contributions in an otherwise unmemorable and/or incomprehensible decade. In literature, for example, the most notable works were written by names from the past: Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, a few others. Twenty years from now, though, an historian looking back on the '70s will proably be more impressed--or depressed--by the extraordinary amount of selfhelp/how-to/me-generation literature that dominated the best-seller lists: The Joy of Sex, I'm OK, You're OK, The Complete Scarsdale Medical...
...seemed to follow a downward trajectory. A consensus was lost, and authority seemed to operate only erratically. The nation split into single-interest power factions. The screws of the American machine jarred loose; the whole thing rattled. Yet any such bleak view of the decade is not entirely justified. Norman Mailer has observed that Americans are obsessed by the question of whether they behave virtuously or not; the ambiguities of the '70s may disturb their moral self-image, and with it, their yearning for clear-cut conclusions. In fact, the U.S. on the whole behaved with considerable virtue, facing...
...experts gave priority to those known for their advocacy of anti-imperialist and humanitarian movements." Some of the names had been suggested to the Foreign Ministry by three Kansans who were in Tehran trying on their own to negotiate an end to the crisis. The Kansans were led by Norman Forer, a former antiwar activist who teaches social welfare at the University of Kansas; after 18 days in Tehran, the would-be mediators went home...