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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sartre's style is a thin, derivative brew of Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos and simplified Joyce. It is hard to feel sorry for his gallery of modern misfits, even hard to remember them, probably because he has simply wrenched them out of life's context to illustrate his philosophy of despair. His stories have the effect of leaving the reader temporarily as debilitated as his characters. The feeling doesn't last long. A glance at any familiar living face dissipates...
Quoting out of context is risky business, and in this particular case the speakers' original intent because twisted into an entirely different meaning. Bruce Harriman...
Second is the "work of art" school, and its, members are those who cast accusations at the literary historians. They iso'..te a work from its context and appraise its intrinsic value. Frequently these crities throw up a maze of technical jargon which only dampens the student's enthusiasm. They do, however, give him the tools with which he may articulate his opinions-the basis for genuine appreciation...
Smith sent another Army officer, Major General Sanderford Jarman, to see the 27th's Ralph Smith. Jarman reported back the Army commander's admission: "If he didn't take his division forward tomorrow, he should be relieved." Next morning, the division did not budge. "In this context of all-round poor performance by the 27th Division," Howlin' Mad wrote, he took map in hand and went to see the overall operation commander, Admiral Raymond Spruance. He told him: "Ralph Smith has demonstrated that he lacks aggressive spirit and his division is slowing down our advance...
...Lewis described him as "tall, slim, straight as a boy, though grey-haired. His face we thought ugly: I am not sure that the word 'monkey' has not been murmured in this context. But the moment he spoke it became, as was also said, like the face of an angel ... a spirit burning with intelligence and charity...