Word: barth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...numbers games have to do with Kobo Abe? Everything (and of course, on the edge of the technological abyss, nothing). Abe is a Nikon camera incarnate, and his transistorized prose--a mixture of journalese and clinical report--combines some of the worst elements of the simple Hesse, the technical Barth, the mundane Beckett, and the grotesque-for-the-sake-of-grotesqueness Barthelme. He is as throughly modern as Japan's prodigal-car, the high on fuel consumption and low on credit...
...funky prose scarcely disguise the conservative folksiness within. Born in Chattanooga and raised in Buffalo, Reed had an early ambition to become a concert violinist. His writing talent surfaced at the University of Buffalo. One of his admirers is another musician-writer, the ranking wizard of experimental fiction, John Barth. After sampling the edges of New York literary life in the early '60s, Reed headed west to Berkeley where he teaches writing at the University of California and is a partner in a new publishing company that supports young talent...
What makes the honesty questionable is Gardner's reputation as an anti-novelist. He is associated with names like John Barth, Donald Barthelme, William Gass and Thomas Pynchon, whose styles often reflect the immense panorama of futility and anarchy they see around them. For these men literary conventions only pose limitations and rules to be broken, and narrative becomes hopelessly narcissistic. In John Barth's story, Lost in the Funhouse, for example, the author interrupts to explain the narrative techniques of the short story while the tale is in progress. Barth then shows contempt for these forms and simultaneously complains...
Harvard's Steve Hanes vaulted to a 14 ft. 8 in. victory in pole vault competition. The Crimson's Phil Barth took second in the same event...
...quarter-century ago, when the delegates to the first assembly of the World Council of Churches met in Amsterdam, Swiss Theologian Karl Barth gave the ecumenical gathering a stern warning. "We are not the ones to change this evil world into a good one," he said. Yet Barth himself had found in the 1930s that his Christian conscience required him to support the defiant German "Confessing Church" in opposing Nazism...