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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faustus comes in these unexpected asides. The section describing Adrian's deal with the Devil (he sells himself body & soul for 24 years of creative greatness) is a tour de force-translated from archaic German into archaic English-that is a unique reading experience in or out of context. So is the subtle, near-perfect sketch of the fast-talking music impresario Saul Fitelberg...
Regular Army men, the argument continues, become so hide-bound by their stultified training that they are only useful within the context of their own environment...
...would beat inflation. Most of them are about bringing "able and honest people to Washington, "men and women of integrity", or about "vigorously supporting our American system of free opportunity." I've pondered on those steps awhile, and I don't think they mean much, in or out of context. But then again, you know what my mother says...
...even disagreement on the Bible's very first verse, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Say the Protestants: "The fuller Biblical doctrine that God created the world out of nothing is not here developed." Say the Catholics: "Both the Hebrew word and the context show that a real creation, i.e., a making out of nothing, is meant...
...world of Lemuel Gulliver is one of the permanent and self-contained creations of literature. But it has a context, and the context enriches it. In reprinting Gulliver's Travels entire for this "portable" edition, Editor Van Doren has surrounded it with earlier and later examples of the prose of Jonathan Swift-a prose that for polished, deadly decorum and energy in satire no writer has ever equaled. Van Doren's introduction also supplies the chief facts about the battles -literary and political-in which Swift fought with all his gall...