Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...running on the basis of the common man," he says. "As in touch with the students as anybody...
...symphony. Koehne calls his piece a contemporary homage to the music of Les Baxter, Henry Mancini and John Barry, but Elevator Music also sounds distinctively Gershwin. Moreover, there is a peculiar consistency in Elevator Music that is hard to find in many modern pieces. Rather than the "degradation" of common time into complex and quirky meters, Koehne sticks mostly to the tried and true 4/4 time signature...
...Descent of Man, Greasy Lake, If the River Was Whiskey and Without a Hero) plus a smattering of new stories, Stories holds in one volume the complete spectrum of Boyle's writing. The satiric and the strange, the touching and the tender, the stories always have one trait in common: Boyle's characteristically piercing view of humanity...
...claims that, in his exaltation of nature, Keats was doing the same as Newton, he is wrong. Keats was not doing the same as Newton. Certainly, in the abstract sense, they both sought truth and understanding. But while a nexus between science and literature can be found in these common goals, it cannot be found in a common approach. Keats found as much physics in nature as Newton found poetry in falling apples...
Inevitably, reviews of A Man in Full revert to comparisons with Bonfire of the Vanities, and the two tales do share many common features. First of all, the plots are strikingly similar. Charlie Croker's financial crisis sounds a great deal like Sherman McCoy's. In fact, each uses the same phrase, "hemorrhaging money," to bemoan his predicament. In both books middling professionals--Raymond Peepgass and Larry Kramer--rabidly attack Croker and McCoy, respectively, in efforts to advance their own shabby ambitions. The protagonists in both novels exacerbate their problems with costly affairs, and the two books also highlight...