Word: depth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Knowles is a precisionist and a sharp contrast to the ebullient undiscipline of Condon and Heller. His first novel, A Separate Peace, is brief and limited in the breadth if not the depth of the experience it describes. Its author is always in perfect control of style and structure. Its theme is the death of innocence; a prep-school boy moves to the disillusion of adulthood by causing, in a half-willed way, the death of his best friend. It is a book that rings in the mind long after the reader has finished it, whose reverberations fill...
...sloppy writing-one taken by most great novelists from Dostoevsky to Faulkner-is unthinkable to him; a page of prose, he feels, should be able to stand alone. "I would not attempt a big novel yet," he says. "My experience is too limited; I would be out of my depth." Such modesty is unexceptionable; yet it is hard to escape the feeling that out of his depth is exactly the place for a young novelist...
...championship team this is not. The crimson does not have the depth, the speed, nor the shooting ability of the Quakers or the Elis, nor does it have a star the likes of Princeton's great sophomore Bill Bradley. And on a given night it could have trouble with P.S. 37, to say nothing of Cornell, whom it has defeated once, Columbia who inflicted its only league loss and Brown...
Gaitskell's opposition to the Common Market was neither doctrinaire nor blind; it was, like the man, reasoned and vocal. Harvard men who remember his Godkin Lectures in 1957 will sense the depth of England's loss. The entire process of two-party government in that country has suddenly become immeasureably more difficult and the future even more clouded. The Western community is shakier and weaker this week...
...barges and 4,100 towboats that ply the inland waterways are less gaudy and singular but more practical than the old sternwheelers. Today's towboats (which actually push rather than pull their tows) have radar, depth recorders, six rudders and two propellers. Their diesel engines generate as much as 9,000 h.p., and can handle strings of barges longer than the Queen Mary...