Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America's critic in chief, the playwright also invented human nature. In this tome the self-styled "Bloom Brontosaurus Bardolater" offers play-by-play essays that are a humane hymn to Shakespeare's continuing relevance as our "mortal god." If he does not quite prove his tremendous thesis, the author of The Western Canon amiably excuses himself on the ground that "explaining Shakespeare is an infinite exercise; you will become exhausted long before the plays are emptied out." Bloom may feel spent after 745 pages, but his essays will energize readers to go right out and pick...
...parallels the author draws between the world and computers are fascinating, especially those on why computers were so appealing to teenagers. In a sense, teenagers of that time and computers grew up together, experiencing the same growing pains. "Together, computer and kid existed in a golden age, a time when the machine was available to us unconcealed, stripped to its component parts, when adults barely understood what we were doing...for the Atari generation the evolution of the machine briefly matched that of our adolescent selves, becoming a vessel and partner, a coconspirator in our mutual coming...
Masculine and feminine forces collided in a philosophical battle of the sexes, as National Book Award-winning poet Robert Bly '50 and Jungian analyst and author Marion Woodman discussed their new jointly-authored book, The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine, Tuesday night...
...author is a junior at Wellesley College...
COMPLAINT Poet said author David Leavitt stole parts of Spender's life from his autobiography, World Within World...