Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times, when the confusion of multiple objects does not interfere with his scenes, Axinn writes palatable, single-theme poetry using tidy lines like "I shall fold you into myself." His voice is clear, and he does not create any discomfort for the reader. He is only trying to convey enjoyment...
Apparently the Germans have also read All Quiet on the Western Front, and in the original. Enough said. A Midnight Clear, like William Wharton's previous novels, Birdy and Dad, does not benefit from having its plot laid bare. The author's gift is an ability to convey emotional clarity in simple prose that transforms incongruities into sharp visual impressions. Snowy woods are both Christmas cards and killing grounds; the château is fortress and cultural repository. A violin liberated from beneath the rafters becomes part of an unusual still life when it is casually set against...
Selected Stories offers 42 reasons why Walser's works earned obscurity and deserved far better. Chosen and largely translated by Poet Christopher Middleton, these prose pieces written between 1907 and 1929 convey a sensibility that was well ahead of its time. A half-century or so before Beckett, Walser was instructing an actor in how to end a play that would end all plays: "Then the painted-scenery houses collapse, like frightful drunkards, and bury you. Only one of your hands is to be seen, reaching up from the smoking ruins. The hand is still moving a little, then...
AMERICA DOES FACE a severe immigration crisis. Haitians languishing in Florida prison camps and Salvadorans going hungry in the Arizona desert convey that message unmistakably. But to meet the crisis, we need a policy that at the very least avoids the kind of blatant contradiction that lawmakers have produced in recent weeks. That policy should be based on the simple observation that immigration to the United States is usually emigration from poverty and oppress on in the less-developed countries. S. 2222 utterly ignores this dimension of the problem. In fact, Simpson believes that migrants do not flee poverty...
...unusual as the amount of ink spilled over the boycott is the tone of most of this editorial commentary. Below are selected excerpts that convey both the style and substance of reaction to the boycott...