Bellow’s Nobel Speech Reflects Modern Literature’s Gap
Boston analysis questions if Saul Bellow’s Nobel talk signaling a move away from complexity captures a broader shift in literature. It argues modern writing risks overemphasis on novelty and irony while yearning for simple, true roots and nourishment from enduring human nature.
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William Faulkner
Stockholm
Saul Bellow
Bellow
Thomas Mann
Stephen Spender
Virginia Woolf
Ezra Pound
Winds Return Oil Slick Watch From Argo Wreck
Reporting from Nantucket Bay the Argo Merchant wreck leaks oil as winds shift with planes circling at low altitudes. A 7.5 million gallon slick remains unseen from 1000 feet while visible oil threads drift toward Bermuda. Coast Guard directs traffic and warns pilots to keep to safe altitudes as the ship settles and the sea reclaims the scene.
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Boston
Argo
Bermuda
Federal Aviation Administration
Nantucket
Coast Guard
Gulf Stream
Gone With the Wind Tops Best Seller at Whelan Drug Store
Advertises Gone With the Wind as the current best seller for 1.98 at Whelan Drug Store. Mrs Addie Delaney of Saf ford Street, aged over eighty, improved after illness and observes her holiday anniversary. Fire damages the rear of Mr and Mrs Aristide LaChance home at 209 Park Street with severe kitchen burns and a waterlogged house.
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Whelan Drug Store
Addie Delaney
Safford Street
Aristide LaChance
Park St
Washington detente era review and Cold War risks
A reflective column traces U S Soviet ties from Khrushchev era travel to Nixon Kissinger detente and SALT talks, noting warnings by Kennan on nuclear stockpiles, the looming SALT II deadline, and Carter’s potential to push arms limits amid Pentagon resistance, with broader notes on military industry and Middle East arms trade. It also memorializes local figures, a Christmas baby, a bank merger, and regional notices.
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Washington
Moscow
United States
Plains
Roly-poly
Nikita Khruschev
Eisenhower
Ike
Russia
America
Kissinger
China
Leonid Brezhnev
U.S
Nixon
Pentagon
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
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M.R. Montgomery
Boston Globe
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T.R.B
Treasury
Bill Simon
Henry Kissinger
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George Kennan
Martin Agronsky
Europe
Gov
Carter
James Schlesinger
Turkey
Greece
Cyprus
India
Pakistan
Middle East
Iran
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Elijah Barber
John Maxmillian
Pownal
Walter Barber
Grandview Street
Bennington
State Supreme Court
Samuel Howard Blackmer
Old Bennington
Putnam Hospital
Joseph Betit
Norton St
John R. Blake
Iade
St. Mary’s Academy
Hoosick Falls
Kathy Delarey
Teresa Hubbard
Sheila Sweet
Theresa Bogardus
Mary Ann Verastro
Betty Gorman
Margaret Irwick
Vermont Bank and Trust Co
Chittenden Trust Co
Vermont
Rutland Corporation
The
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Norman H. Greenberg
Greenberg
Elm Street
East Arlington
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Catamount National Bank
North Bennington
Bennington Plaza & Putnam Square
Brattleboro, Manchester Center
West Dover
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