Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity wrestling team rolled to an easy 27-9 triumph over Brown last night at Providence to move one step closer to a duel for second place with Princeton next week...
...field of special competence. None the less he has made some notable and very successful attempts to shape his art to political necessity, as in "I'm Black And I'm Proud." Frankly, though, J.B. does not seem very comfortable dealing with politics. His own personal wishes seem closer to what he has done in the past, that is pure entertainment, despite his recent pronouncements on the political and economic condition of the race. Since he is so much the influential figure, no one can doubt that he will be under increasing pressure to follow somebody's political line...
...playful ode to teen-age idols ("We love you Conrad/ Oh, yes we do-oo/ We love you Conrad/ And we'll be true-oo") during giddy lunch hours. Roll has fled the rock forever, and the music we used to "pony" to has been usurped by sounds much closer to pot, orgasms, and revolutions than to late-night necking parties and coke...
...real world. The ego mediates between the individual and society, between pleasure and reality. Alienation, postulated in Freudian terms, results from an imbalance of reality and pleasure principles in favor of the former. Since the female role had required less adjustment to the reality principle, and has retained a closer conection with the sources of individual development, it is not surprising that feminine qualities should be associated with unalienated human potentials...
...consciousness becomes his hang-up. At one point he pauses over a particular problem to ask, "now, why is that? is there an essay somewhere I can read on that? is it of import? or shall I go on?" Portnoy, with his daydreams and his failures, is actually much closer to that other Joycean hero, Leopold Bloom. The more Portnoy dredges up his past, the more it cripples him. He never achieves even Stephen's nominative freedom, for the mind is the one part of the man that can never expatriate...