Word: elbowroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...push themselves show clearly that the end is not worth much. Let us reply to ambition that it is she herself that gives us a taste for solitude. For what does she shun so much as society? What does she seek so much as elbowroom...
...knows. On the surface, his narrative is an old-fashioned adventure story, episodic, rambling, full of exotic surprises. Beneath all that activity, though, lie several conclusions that Charlie himself does not draw. Shaved of its excesses, Allie's critique of contemporary life is valid. There is ever less elbowroom for the individual; submissive cooperation with increasingly remote and mysterious forces has become the order of the day. And Allie's fate suggests that the trend is irreversible. He undoes himself because he carries with him the civilization he thought he had abandoned. He explains his itch to improve...