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...technique of identical repetition of a few scenes to good effect. But repetitiveness can be boring, as example by an old man's reminiscence of a night he spent in a woodshed with the local rich girl. He endlessly repeats the same fragments of his mind; her breasts, the dew on the grass, the smell of the wood chips, while he makes sassafras...
Poet in Uniform. In each instance, the high poetic music of the play has been jangled and the nature of Othello obscured. While Othello sometimes speaks with direct and simple beauty ("Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them"), he often cloaks himself in more ornamental phraseology, and this silver rhetoric is lost on tongues of clay...
after you scooped up a little of the sky' n it ain't blue no more what's on the leaves ain't dew no more Space-Age Couple Why don't you just do that? Why don't you just do that...
Wrong Priorities. A brilliant electrical engineer with degrees from the University of Michigan. Wiesner did basic work that helped develop the long-range radar of the DEW line. He favors pure research, which sometimes has potential military applications. "How else can we decide whether to build these things?" he asks. By contrast, he opposes university work on weapons hardware and complains, "It is very hard for us to look to Government for support in areas like urban problems and educational research. The Government doesn't have the right priorities...
Ruminating about the difficulties of transposing life into art, Updike wrote, "From the dew of the few flakes that melt on our faces we cannot reconstruct the snowstorm." He is wrong, really, for this artless book obliquely manages to re-create the emotional blizzard that made him into an artist...