Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David Herbert Donald, a Harvard historian, attempts to revise that judgment by presenting an oversize, extravagantly gifted North Carolinian who tried bold Joycean experiments in stream of consciousness and attempted to rescue American writing from the expatriate Lost Generation in Europe. According to legend, Wolfe was saved from drowning in his own verbiage by Editor Maxwell Perkins, mentor of Fitzgerald and Hemingway. According to the biographer, Perkins and his colleagues distorted Wolfe's intentions and eviscerated his posthumous works beyond recognition...
...Glasnost" may be a cynical political maneuver or a bold opening limited by strongly entrenched bureaucratic interests...
...point is that it is not time for the clubs to die, but rather to evolve. the final clubs were a bold experiment, a revolutionary country club-like method of dealing with individual differences, but they still are only one step on the path to social nirvana. My method to complete the process is called Project Final Final Club, or PFFC for short...
Commentators call him bold, original, experimental, difficult, exciting and funny. He has been praised as a pioneering post-modernist, shouted down as a strident sexist, dismissed as a mere satirist, but he insists that he eludes all simple labels and rejects the legitimacy of categorization...
...activity takes place in Europe; what Old World audiences find adventurous, American operagoers often consider brazen. Protective of the cultural talismans bequeathed by distant European forefathers, Americans tend to mistrust radical interpretations. Europeans, more at ease with their own heritage, feel freer to experiment with it. Those seeking a bold approach in the U.S. will rarely find it in the big houses. In New York City, the Metropolitan Opera favors conservative productions, sometimes elephantine ones like Franco Zeffirelli's La Boheme and Tosca, that reinforce the company's role as a musical museum. Occasionally, the rival New York City Opera...