Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unfair. King transcends such stereotypes because he is a writer with a vision--a vision for which horror is simply a medium. Beneath the macabre lies a majestic conception of good and evil, a perceptive appreciation of human nature, and a basic understanding of fear as a primordial element of that nature. King could be an artist. With endless sessions of revision, a dash of torment and a bit of solemnity, king could, if he tried, be a serious artist...
...made the old-fashioned novel redundant, a tired illusion that had been exposed once and for all as a sham. Literature should no longer pretend to portray people doing things: it ought to be an artful arrangement of words on a page. Critic Richard Oilman, typically, called narrative "that element of fiction which coerces and degrades it into being a mere alternative to life." Updike's novels and stories went right on, stubbornly offering swatches of alternative lives. Their author proved over the years that the ramshackle, theoretically condemned house of story telling still has some unexplored chambers...
...Helmut Schmidt's ruling center-left coalition. It marked the first time in West Germany's postwar history that a change in leadership was brought about by the use of the "constructive" procedure.* The unorthodox method of the changing of the guard in Bonn gave an element of instability and uncertainty to the fledgling Kohl government, which has tentatively promised national elections for next March 6. Kohl's new coalition is untested, and his Christian Democratic Union has not been overwhelmingly successful in recent state elections. Kohl's new junior partners, the Free Democrats...
Most likely the habit of applauding is responsible for another phenomenon peculiar to Harvard hissing. This one, Thernstrom reflects gives proceedings "a slight element of spice." While most professors share Thernstrom's benevolent acceptance of good natured hissing. "If one tells a bad pun, one deserves to be hissed," John L. Clive, Kenan Professor of History and Literature asserts many students feel hissing has no place in the lecture hall. "It's very disruptive," says Tracy Rouse. "Students hiss down questions if they don't like them like this morning in Chem...
Federal funds to subsidize low- and moderate-income apartments after the renovation of the Craigie Arms Apartments, a crucial element in tenants' support for those improvements last spring, may not be available, officials said last week...