Word: adler
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...Adler missed The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
...hurt that Adler did not include B.F. Skinner, who is a forerunner in the behavioral science field...
...disappointed not to see any of the masterpieces of Nikos Kazantzakis included in Adler's list...
...Adler's list of 131 works by 73 writers is, quite naturally, eclectic. It extends from the popular (Orwell's Animal Farm) to the ponderous (Sartre's Being and Nothingness). To stimulate the board, Adler professes to consider his selections "woefully inadequate" and urges anyone to "challenge the soundness of my nominations...
...offer is hard to resist. How, one might ask, could Adler nominate Eliot's pretentious The Cocktail Party and not his superb Four Quartets? If there is room for the historical musings of Toynbee, why is there no room for Braudel's monumental The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II? And if this list is supposed to update the original of 25 years ago, why does it recognize so few living writers? Bellow and Solzhenitsyn are admirable, but where is the magic of Grass's The Tin Drum or Robert Lowell...