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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country of liberty and freedom, what happened to the right of privacy? Is it gone with the wind? FABIO PESSOA DOS SANTOS Sao Paulo, Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 28, 1998 | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...master 850 or so writers. He wants them to pay close attention to the 26 discussed in the bulk of his book: Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliere, Milton, Dr. Johnson, Goethe, Wordsworth, Austen, Whitman, Dickinson, Dickens, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Borges, Neruda, Pessoa and Beckett. This grouping, Bloom's elite among the elite, holds few surprises: an obligatory academic obscurity (Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa), four women and a majority of D.W.E.M.s. (Bloom gives canonical status to Homer and the major Greek dramatists and philosophers but does not discuss their works at any length because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hurrah for Dead White Males! | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

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