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Bradley, who was 19 when he began working on the project, described his "shock" at seeing typos and "rough sentences that needed honing" while sifting through Ellison’s notes. Despite the notes’ roughness, the editors said it was clear that Ellison was experimenting with the possibilities and variations of language...
...University of Chicago as "our closest approximation to the idea of a great university." Hmm. Cole also traces the history of modern American higher education back to the founding of Johns Hopkins in 1876—not to 1636, which everyone knows is the year when the world officially began spinning on its axis...
Livingstone had a similar revelation early in her career. “I began to realize that artists, just like scientists, are doing experiments, and that a number of works of art reveal important things about how we see,” she says...
Ferris effectively uses the illness as a foil to the pernicious corporate environment to which Tim belongs, taking up the critique that he began in his first novel, but on a different front. It is this premise of two opposing ailments as they compete for Tim’s life that distinguishes “The Unnamed” from among a field of clichéd and poorly written romantic tragedies...
...arrest follows two weeks of drama that began with Fonseka and his close aides moving into a posh Colombo hotel during the evening of Jan. 26, election day. The hotel was soon surrounded by military. Fonseka complained that there was a threat to his life and that the government was limiting his movements. Authorities claimed that security had been increased around the hotel as a precaution, although several former military officers working on the Fonseka campaign were arrested as they left the hotel. The drama ended late in the evening on Jan. 27 when Fonseka finally left the hotel, although...