Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Literary quarterlies are plagued by excesses of slide projector poetry, that brand of literature which will stand scrutiny but not reading. Fortunately, the current Audience is an exception; it has more than enough sound rich work to make...
...Road, less sexy than The Subterraneans, but it reconfirms Kerouac's literary role as a kind of Tom Thumb Wolfe in hip clothing. Like other Kerouac novels, the book has the sound of jazzed-up autobiography, and the most fictional thing about it may well be the brand of Buddhism (ostensibly Zen) that the beat hero and his pals preach and practice...
...writers W. R. Burnett and John Huston have supplied him with lines which are, after some twenty years, acutely embarrassing. They cannot, for that matter, have been very absorbing when they were brand...
Princeton's brand of "generally poor" English is "becoming worse every day" Willard Thorp, Princeton '26, warned in a recent Princeton Alumni weekly...
...never absent from the novels, but it is stronger in these three than elsewhere. Guerard, despite "my sympathy with the political vision" of Nostromo seems less interested in ideology than in the other components of novels. This is a great pity much of Conrad's ideology, for that brand of illiberalism is not going to find many commentators sympathetic enough to do it justice...