Word: dickenses
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In subtle but invasive ways, liberal education as we experience it has become gradually, but persistently, pre-professionalized. True, we are still studying material life in Puritan America, and the significance of leitmotifs in Dickens, or marriage rituals in rural South China, instead of contract law or mergers and acquisitions...
Of course, millions of people in the world have never read a book. Millions of people are illiterate - unable to read anything. Still, it came as a shock, flying with the lucky classes at 30,000 feet across twenty-first century America, to hear this strange admission. When Nancy repeated...
What could have happened? Those who have been suddenly lost, or seized, report later that their greatest fear was that no one would know what had happened to them. Evelyn Waugh wrote a hilariously spooky novel-as-parable called "A Handful of Dust," in which an Englishman, his marriage destroyed...
All languages have their own heritage, and English (forgetting American for the moment) cannot easily escape its associations with English history, English manners, Shakespeare, Dickens, the Bible. Narayan cleansed his English, so to speak, of all these associations, cleansed it of everything but irony, and applied it to his own...
In London, a handful of companies offers a potpourri of more than 200 walks, among them specialty excursions for mystery and architecture buffs and theater lovers. By far the largest and most successful company is Original London Walks, a firm headed by David Tucker, a Wisconsin-born Dickens scholar, and...