Word: analytik
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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Take, for example, the German graduate student in search of a thesis topic, who claims "competences in Philologik, Linguistik, Pedagogik, Psycho-Analytik and Aerobik," but whose command of English is not so confident as his manner of address. "What I like is to take your 'campus-novels' . . . and compare them with the works of your better competitors -- as, Thom. Hardy, Max Beerbohm, J.I.M. Stewart . . . and David Lodge." Bradbury cannot resist compounding the young man's confusion ("It was clever of you . . . to work out that in fact I am several if not all of the authors you mention") while offering...
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