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LESELUST: John Irving - Garp
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Extractions: Um ihm eine gute Schulbildung zu ermöglichen, zieht Jenny mit ihrem Sohn aufs Geländer der Stering-School. Als er alt genug ist, in den Genuss dieser Bildungseinrichtung zu kommen, hat seine Mutter schon alle relevanten Kurse belegt - nur um den Sport, den er ausüben sollte, hat sie sich nie Gedanken gemacht.
Irving, John
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The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
By john irving. New York Times The author discusses the pornography victims' compensation bill and censorship. Registration required
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Extractions: Lead: THESE are censorial times . I refer to the pornography victims' compensation bill, now under consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee that same bunch of wise men who dispatched such clearheaded, objective jurisprudence in the Clarence Thomas hearings. I can't wait to see what they're going to do with this maladroit proposal. The bill would encourage victims of sexual crimes to bring civil suits against publishers and distributors of material that is "obscene or constitutes child pornography" if they can prove that the material was "a substantial cause of the offense," and if the publisher or distributor should have "foreseen" that such material created an "unreasonable risk of such a crime." If this bill passes, it will be the first piece of legislation to give credence to the unproven theory that sexually explicit material actually causes sexual crimes. At the risk of sounding old-fashioned, I'm still pretty sure that rape and child molestation predate erotic books and pornographic magazines and X-rated videocassettes. I also remember the report of the two-year, $2 million President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (1970), which concluded there was "no reliable evidence . . . that exposure to explicit sexual material plays a significant role in the causation of delinquent or criminal sexual behavior." In 1986, not satisfied with that conclusion, the Meese commission on pornography and the Surgeon General's conference on pornography also failed to establish such a link. Now, here they go again.
Irving, John
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Extractions: Irving, John Irving, John, The World According to Garp (1978). The novel concerns the career of a novelist, and its complex narrative gives Irving the opportunity to offer his opinions on a number of contemporary issues, most notably feminism. His other novels include Setting Free the Bears The Hotel New Hampshire The Cider House Rules A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), and A Widow for One Year (1998). Several have been made into films. See his memoir, My Movie Business
LESELUST: John Irving - Die Wilde Geschichte Vom Wassertrinker. *** Rezensionen
Das Leben des Fred Bogus Trumper von USA nach Wien nach Zell am See und weiter nach Idaho - vorgestellt in der Leselust von Daniela Ecker. Mit Leseprobe.
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Extractions: "Ihr Gynäkologe hat ihn mir empfohlen" - so beginnt der zweite Roman von John Irving. Fred Bogus Trumper hat ein Problem - und soll es angeblich mit Hilfe von Unmengen Wasser in den Griff bekommen können. Aber dieser Ausflug in seine anatomischen Probleme tangiert den Leser trotz interessanter Ausführungen nur periphär; viel interessanter ist es zu lesen, wie Trumper eigentlich in die Situation kam, in der er heute steckt.
Irving, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. irving, john. 1942,American writer, b. Exeter, NH His mixture of wild plot strategies
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The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
By john irving. New York Times The author responds to letters to the editor about his Pornography and the New Puritans essay. Registration required
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Extractions: Lead: To the Editor: It is certainly educative to reflect upon the ad hominem nature of Roger Rosenblatt's response to my essay "Pornography and the New Puritans," for Mr. Rosenblatt's letter (May 3) serves to illuminate the vast differences that exist between a literary and a journalistic sensibility differences that make it disingenuous of Mr. Rosenblatt to describe our argument as an "old-fashioned kind of literary fight." The "literary" side of this fight is entirely mine: Bret Easton Ellis's novel "American Psycho" should have been reviewed at the time of its publication, especially in The Book Review. What's written about any book three months in advance of its publication is mere gossip; Mr. Rosenblatt, as an eager reporter, was contributing to the gossip. Text: I also said, in my essay, that Mr. Rosenblatt was as "censorial" in his judgment of the president of Alfred A. Knopf and Vintage Books (Sonny Mehta) for publishing "American Psycho" as he was of Mr. Ellis for writing it. For Mr. Rosenblatt to reply in his letter that he was merely "chiding" Sonny Mehta is egregiously deceiving; Mr. Rosen blatt excoriated Mr. Mehta he even described Mr. Mehta as "clearly as hungry for a killing" as Mr. Ellis's serial killer. This is "chiding"?
Irving, John. The American Heritage® Dictionary Of The English Language: Fourth
irving, john. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language FourthEdition. 2000. 2000. irving, john. DATES Born 1942. American writer.
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Extractions: Select Search All Bartleby.com All Reference Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference American Heritage Dictionary Irving, Sir Henry ... BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.
LESELUST: John Irving - Lasst Die Bären Los *** Rezensionen - Bücher - Lesen ***
Der erste Roman des amerikanischen Autors vorgestellt in der Leselust von Daniela Ecker. Mit Leseprobe.
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Extractions: Weit kommen sie auch nicht auf ihrer Reise; in der Wachau treffen sie Gallen - und werden von dem hübschen jungen Mädchen im Gasthof ihrer Tante einquartiert, den sie sich nicht leisten können. Aber das wäre noch das kleinere Übel; die Tierliebe geht auch hier mit Javotnik durch. Der Schaden, den er dadurch verursacht, soviel ist klar, kann von ihm nicht abgelöst werden; ein Fall für die Polizei. Und vor der fährt er mit dem Motorrad davon. Aber er will wiederkommen und mit seinem Freund gemeinsam die Tiere im Zoo befreien.
Author John Irving Speaks Out On Act 60.
A letter from john irving about Act 60 in Vermont and its negative impact on education and the state's children.
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Extractions: What I Actually Said About Act 60 - John Irving Vermont resident and Author John Irving (World According to Garp, Hotel New Hampshire, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Ciderhouse Rules, etc.) feels strongly about the wrongness of Act 60. Yet when he speaks to the media, they report only sound-bytes with no context. Below is a letter from John Irving, in its entirety (see also: The Shameful Burlington Free Press Editorial About John Irving As if to emphasize how "slight" the educational benefits to so-called receiving towns will be, Gov. Dean himself has urged receiving towns to keep their educational expenses to a minimum. Why? To hold their taxes down! Because if and when the receiving towns actually spend money to improve their children's education, their taxes will increase, too. When the receiving towns realize just how little newly gained tax money will be spent on their children's education, not to mention when they realize that their taxes will eventually increase, then Act 60 will no longer appear to be a Robin Hood gesture of good will to the disadvantaged - as it is now misrepresented by both Gov. Dean and Sen. Shumlin, and the mainstream of the Vermont media. It is immoral to claim to be improving the education of 85% of Vermont's schoolchildren - albeit only marginally, if at all - by radically damaging the existing education of 15,000 to 20,000 other children! I have repeatedly said that to various Vermont journalists. It has never been reported.
Irving, John
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LESELUST: John Irving - Eine Mittelgewichtsehe *** Rezensionen - Bücher - Lesen
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Extractions: Schriftsteller ist er, der Erzähler - historische Romane verfasst er. Und bei den Recherchen für sein erstes Buch hatte er in Wien Utsch kennengelernt; Utsch, die von ihrer Mutter beim Ende des zweiten Weltkriegs vor den Russen im Bauch einer Kuh versteckt worden war. Und die ihre Kindheit als Ziehtochter eines russischen Hauptmanns verbracht hatte.
In Defense Of Sentimentality
By john irving. New York Times The author discusses the importance of sentimentality in writing. Registration required
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Extractions: November 25, 1979 By JOHN IRVING ell over a century ago, Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol"it was just two days after Christmas and 2,000 people gave the author their rapt attention (and frequent applause). The reading took three hours, though in later years Dickens would prune "A Christmas Carol" to a two-hour performance; he liked it well enough that first time, however, to repeat the reading three days laterto an audience of 2,500 almost exclusively composed of working people, for whom he had requested that the auditorium be reserved. He thought they were his best audience. "They lost nothing, misinterpreted nothing, followed everything closely, laughed and cried," Dickens said, "and [they] animated me to that extent that I felt as if we were all bodily going up into the clouds together." I wish I could have been there. I try to imagine it, every Christmas, when I watch the new and old television versions of "A Christmas Carol"; some are better than others, and in some I can imagine Dickens himselfwho loved to acttaking the part of Scrooge, or playing the Ghost of Christmas Past. Dickens might have enjoyed the mesmerizing popularity of television, though he surely would have detested the lifelessness of television's language; it was at his insistence that the price of "A Christmas Carol" was held to five shillingsso that it might reach a wider audience. In his biography of Charles Dickens, Edgar Johnson writes, "'A Christmas Carol' is a serio-comic parable of social redemption, and Scrooge's conversion is the conversion for which Dickens hopes among mankind." Indeed, it is the hopefulness of that inspired dream of a book (Tiny Tim is spared, and Scrooge sees the error of his ways) that makes "A Christmas Carol" ever-appropriate for Christmas. "Against Scrooge and the orthodox economists," Mr. Johnson writes, "Dickens insists that no way of life is sound or rewarding that leaves out men's need of loving and being loved."
Irving, John R.P. - Bright Sparcs Biographical Entry
irving, john RP Bright Sparcs Biographical entry, Bright Sparcs is a biographical,bibliographical and archival database of Australian scientists with links
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Extractions: Home Browse Search Previous ... Next Applied chemist Born: 1909?. Died: 12 April 1945. Irving worked on a CSIR research project at the University of Queensland, investigating the recovery of by-products in the industrial manufacture of alcohol. He then moved to Adelaide to join the chemical staff of Messrs Beckers Pty Ltd, where he worked 1942-45. Career Highlights Born 1909?. Died 12 April 1945. Educated University of Queensland (BScApp 1931). Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing, Brisbane and Sydney, CSIR research project, University of Queensland, chemical staff, Messrs Beckers Pty Ltd, Adelaide 1942-45. Structure based on ISAAR(CPF) - click here for an explanation of the fields Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
LESELUST: John Irving - Hotel New Hampshire *** Rezensionen - Bücher - Lesen ***
john Irvings bester Roman Eine Familie, das heiÃt inzestuÃ¶ses Verlangen, Hotels, BÃ¤ren, Tote, Vergewaltigung, Terroristen und vor allem Zusammenhalt und Liebe. Vorgestellt in der Leselust von Daniela Ecker. Mit Leseprobe.
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Extractions: Aber dann war da dieser Sommer, als sie beide einen Ferienjob in einem Hotel angenommen hatten - der Sommer, als auch Freud mit seinem Bären und dem Motorrad in diesem Hotel gearbeitet hatte. Und am Ende des Sommers waren sie ein Paar, das seinen erarbeiteten Lohn für den Bären und das Motorrad ausgegeben hatte.
Review
By john irving. New York Times The author reviews Tar Baby by Toni Morrison. Registration required
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Extractions: March 29, 1981 By John Irving TAR BABY By Toni Morrison. novelist's vice usually resembles his virtue, for what he does best he also tends to do to excess: if he's good at being lyrical, he's too lyrical; if a cruel fate or accident seems to attend each character's childhood, that doom announces itself like a gun going off too long before the bullet's arrival. Our best and most ambitious writers indulge their vices as freely as their virtues; they are unafraid of them and think it small-minded to exercise restraint. Thomas Hardy, for instance, much maligned for the preachy element in his prose - his instructions to mankind that intrude upon his narrative like a voice over a loudspeaker in the midst of some public crisis - chooses not to describe Tess d'Urberville's deflowering as if it affected only one victim; instead he addresses a larger injustice, which may be what many readers dislike in Hardy - especially today - but this is also what makes Hardy Hardy. The more ambitious a novelist is, the more willing he is to elevate his characters to the level of myth - to give their births, their relationships, their deaths, even their names, the resonance of legend. Dickens conveys such an ambition in his titles (''Bleak House,'' ''Great Expectations,'' ''Hard Times'') and of course in his characters' names (Lady Dedlock, Mr. Jaggers, Gradgrind). The 19thcentury novel is rich with such risk, such mischief. Toni Morrison seems to be returning such risk and mischief to the contemporary American novel, and never more extravagantly than in ''Tar Baby,'' her fourth and most ambitious book. In ''Song of Solomon'' (1977) she gave us a hospital called Mercy Hospital, popularly called ''No Mercy.'' That novel began with a life insurance agent leaping off the hospital roof in an attempt to fly to the other side of Lake Superior: ''I will take off from Mercy and fly away on my own wings. Please forgive me. I loved you all.'' Toni Morrison loves them all, too - all her characters, in all her books. She mythologizes her characters almost as they're conceived, at least as soon as they're born, but she has the good novelist's sense of detail that makes these mythic people live. The boy born in the hospital on the day the life insurance agent fails to fly is named Milkman; he's the first black baby born at ''No Mer-cy''; his aunt is named Pilate, and she's born without a navel.
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LESELUST: John Irving - Biographie Und Bibliographie
Eine ausfÃ¼hrliche Biographie Ã¼ber john irving mit Vorstellung all seiner BÃ¼cher. Von Daniela Ecker in der Leselust.
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Irving, John
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By john irving. New York Times The author reviews The Good Son by Craig Nova. Registration required
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Extractions: October 3, 1982 By JOHN IRVING The Good Son By Craig Nova. op MacKinnon - ''a coarse, charming man, a lawyer, and a good one'' - wants his sons to follow his path: to be lawyers who know how to hunt and marry well; to be gentlemen who join that unassailable aristocracy which is earned by tough, no-nonsense cleverness and is protected by money. Son John disappoints Pop; he is killed in World War II. So son Chip - a fighter pilot who was shot down in the war but survived as a P.O.W. - becomes the title character of ''The Good Son,'' Craig Nova's fourth novel. In this dark, deep story of a father and son who love (and love to fight) each other, the good son is the one who will defeat, or even kill, his father with the father's own weapons. I've read no better, no more bitter and ironic understanding of professional cunning and ambition since Joseph Heller's ''Something Happened.'' I've read no fuller mixture of human frailties, no more deft revelation of the chinks in moral armor since Robertson Davies's ''Leaven of Malice.'' I've read no more comic and painful exploration of the disasters of loneliness since Nabokov's ''Laughter in the Dark.'' As a virtuoso handling of first-person narration, ''The Good Son'' is as marvelous as Andre Brink's recent ''A Chain of Voices.'' In this exquisitely delineated battle between father and son, both men are consumed and changed; each gets his own way but both victors pay a price. ''When my boys were younger I sent them to Yale,'' Pop Mackinnon says, ''because I wanted all the nonsense knocked out of them. A passing appreciation of books and so on, but no more. I wanted my sons to have sensible ideas.'' Pop means the law: ''because law is the thing, the most sensible of all, because it works like a boa constrictor, the best of all snakes. My favorite. A boa doesn't actually squeeze anything. The snake just wraps itself around a man or a lamb or some unfortunate creature and waits for whatever it's wrapped around to exhale: the boa then takes up the slack. It's a procedure, and the law is nothing else if it's not a procedure. You can trust a snake, especially a nice Harvard one, so that's why, after the war (after having all the nonsense knocked out of him in New Haven) I sent Chip to law school in Cambridge.''

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