Word: dadalus
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...right. Robert Coles, Kenneth Lynn, Roger Rosenblatt and Nathan Glazer have at one time or another written enlightening pieces on their subject matter in this issue: work, American literature, television and ethnicity. But perhaps these writers' familiarity with their topics led to the chief drawback in this issue of Dadalus. No one seems to have expended much energy or given any new thought to his or her topic...
...level of prose in the issue with some nicely turned phrases describing maturity in writing. But this feat is accomplished at the expense of any relevance the article may have to the issue of literature generally. One gets the feeling that Lynn did not want to write about Dadalus's topic of adulthood and anxiously strayed into personal idiosyncracies. His essay expands into a kind of literary dumping ground for odd reflections on random groups and individuals: teenagers, Margaux Hemingway, the frontier. When he does attempt to make a point, as in his discussion of the recent film version...
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