Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lurches into A.D. has been brewing in conservative Christian circles for a while, but got its mainstream outing in the Easter edition of the Washington Post. The piece recounted how Hart, whose combined work on B.C. and The Wizard of Id makes him the earth's most syndicated comics author, bought some satellite dishes. The installers were evangelical Christians, and soon Hart was too. Around 1989 he began doing about five religious strips a year, usually around Christmas and Easter...
...Senior Bar nonetheless and sip my beer, watching the vista spread out before me. Over there's the doctor who will cure my fever, standing next to me is my future senator, who's talking to the author of the book that will make me laugh, late at night, after I've put the kids to bed. I'd like to meet them all tonight, but I have the feeling that I'll be seeing them again sometime soon. Joshua Derman is a philosophy concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...dumbfoundingly naive notion that form andcontent can be neatly separated was hardly uniqueto Prose: remarkably--and despite the earlierassertions of the writer E. Annie Proulx and thecritic Seven Birkerts that style is not merely thearrangement of words but rather expressive of andinextricable from the author's entireworldview--nobody sitting on the podium with Proseseemed immediately bothered by her assertion. And,in Hemingway's case, perhaps it is not hard tounderstand why: if one can separate style fromcontent, one can perhaps remove from the text andfrom literary legacy the offensive of ErnestHemingway...
...characters outof his works and of racism when he does includethem. And even when Hemingway is not offendinganybody, he has been labeled infantile. Writerslike Tobias Wolff mark their adulthood at thepoint when they cease to be entranced byHemingway's bravado; and perhaps many--like PeterMathiessen, who smugly pronounced the author a"brave coward"--take a certain joy in Hemingway'ssuicide, which proves once and for all that theman was really a posturer, masking fear withmachismo...
Some of those who would separate style andcontent are authors like Frederick Busch, whoclaims that Hemingway is "not interested inpeople, or social circumstances" and is then ableto praise Hemingway's work because he has confinedthe man's entire project to a stylistic endeavor.Then there are critics like Chinua Achebe, theNigerian author of Things Fall Apart, whois comfortable addressing Hemingway's stylisticcontributions to literature even while expressinghis disinterest in Hemingway's subject matter,because Achebe feels the content of the work hasno particular relevance to him as an African.Finally, there are those whose distaste forHemingway as a person forces them pastdisinterest...