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 (măl′ə-məd), Bernard 1914-1986.
American writer whose novels and short stories often depict Jewish characters coping with a lonely and seemingly unfair world. His works include The Magic Barrel (1958) and The Fixer (1966).
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Malamud

(ˈmæləməd; -mʊd)
n
(Biography) Bernard. 1914–86, US novelist and short-story writer. His works include The Fixer (1966) and Dubin's Lives (1979)
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Mal•a•mud

(ˈmæl ə məd, -ˌmʊd)

n.
Bernard, 1914–86, U.S. writer.
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Before Dubin, Malamud had moved another of his literary Jews from New York to the country: this time to "the fabulous, friendly West," which for Seymour Levin, protagonist of A New Life (1961), turns out to be neither fabulous nor as friendly as he had imagined it (Malamud 2004, 90).
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C'est cette ambivalence, cet amour anxieux, exigeant et parfois desespere qui le distingue des autres tenants de la pastorale americaine – les Mailer, les Malamud, les Bellow.
The Natural, published in 1952, is Bernard Malamud's first novel and one that is sometimes considered to sit rather uneasily with his subsequent body of fiction.
One thinks of such works as Kaufman and Hart's 1939 play The Man Who Came to Dinner; the 1967 Stanley Kramer-directed Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, starring Sidney Poitier; the 1981 farce The Nerd, by Larry Shue; and the classic Bernard Malamud short story "The Jewbird" from 1963.
1971 First email is sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson 1989 March - Tim Berners-Lee coins the term World Wide Web 1993 May - the first online newspaper is created by students at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), called The Tech 1993 Carl Malamud launched Internet Talk Radio which was the first computer-radio talk show, each week interviewing a computer expert.