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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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203 words, approx. 1 pages
 The Names is the seventh novel written by the American novelist Don DeLillo, first published in 1982. The novel, set mostly in Greece, is primarily a series of character studies, interwoven with a plot about a mysterious "language cult" that is behind a... 
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 The Washington Post Naming Names
01/03/1992: 3,004 words, approx. 10 pages WHAT'S IN A name? Just take a look at the facades of some of Washington's best-known buildings and attractions. The names - Freer, Myer, Corcoran, Barry, for example - ring familiar, but almost always as places to visit rather than people who once lived.... summary from source:
The Boston Globe The naming of names
06/15/1997: 1,405 words, approx. 5 pages It was back in the mid-1970s that nations all around the world began a slow, steady turn to the Right -- toward markets and individual choice, away from central planning and social control. Now a Labor government is back in power in the United... summary from source:
 AP News A guide to the names on 'Fake Steve'
8/6/2007: 321 words, approx. 1 pagesThe "Fake Steve" blog won many fans in the technology world, serving up hilarious daily satire of what purported to be a "secret diary" of Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple Inc.Trying to figure out the blogger's true identity became a favorite guessing game of... summary from source:
AP News Changes announced for Sept. 11 memorial
12/14/2006: 543 words, approx. 2 pagesThe Sept. 11 memorial will list the names of the dead according to the World Trade Center tower where they died, their company or the plane they were on, a change from the random listing envisioned two years ago by the memorial's designer, officials said...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jonathan Yardley
573 words, approx. 2 pages
Don DeLillo is a formidable prose stylist; as Fred Allen once said of another literary craftsman, "He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose." From time to time DeLillo thinks as keenly as he writes, and it is in these moments that The Names,… achieves its greatest power and interest. Unfortunately, though, these moments are concentrated in the first of the book's three principal sections, leaving the reader to plow through the remaining two-thirds... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Charles Champlin
507 words, approx. 2 pages
Don DeLillo is a mystery of a writer, one of the most critically acclaimed but narrowly known of all contemporary American novelists. It is hard to say why. He is fearlessly original and uncompromising, but he is not an avant-gardist as I understand the term, trying to see just how private language can be, or how ambiguous.
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