Word: actualized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Starting salaries for college graduates in large companies are, in actual worth, lower than in past years, Richard B. Freeman, associate professor of Economics, said yesterday...
Fried's appointed task--to synthesize history and literature in a way that will do justice to both--is an ambitious one, perhaps overly so. In the end, his work is very hard to judge for jsut that reason. Only when he sticks to public figures and actual historical events is Fried assured of historical accuracy, his own philosophising about truth notwithstanding; but only by endowing those characters with distinctive motivations as mediated by the biases of fictional observers can he make history into drama. The combination of the verifiably historic with the personally idiosyncratic--when Fried achieves that synthesis...
Roger Rosenblatt's short piece "Growing Up On Television" suffers from different problems. Rosenblatt, literary editor of the New Republic, does not commit Coles's stylistic abuses. But he provides so little analysis and arrives so infrequently at conclusions about television's actual role in adult life that the piece seems ill-fitted for an analytical journal. Instead of coming to terms with the crucial role television has played, Rosenblatt adopts the posture of those television critics who prefer to deal with the subject from on high. Thus, instead of a focused critique of the cult of money...
...Hundred Years, a kernel of reality lies in the Patriarch's story. Garcia Marquez says that he learned everything he could about actual dictators, then forgot it all in order to write the novel. The Patriarch ages, contemptibly deaf and senile, gradually cut off from authority by bureaucrats who preserve him as a useful relic. He caricatures Franco propped up by his bodyguards in motorcades and at podiums, or the pathetic fake photograph of Mao swimming in the Yangtze River. His solitariness is the loneliness of power taken to its extreme and most human degree...
...earlier theories. Also interesting in this connection is the fact that Mr. Hiss himself apparantly has minimized the importance of the John Dean quote (in Blind Ambition) about what he alleges that Nixon told Charles Colson--about building a typewriter in the case. Colson insists that the actual quote was something to the effect that the case was built around the typewriter, which of course is something different. Part of the explanation for Hiss' rather restrained response is that it appears from published reports that one of the theories the Hiss defense is operating under at this point is that...