Word: ellisons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film, A Boy and His Dog with Don Johnson and Jason Robards, is also about the space-age. The hype for the movie warns "no one admitted after the performance starts...it has to be seen from the beginning!" It's based on a science-fiction novella by Harlan Ellison of the same name. Blast...
...spread don't seem to figure in her mind. Smugly, she explains that writing is the only pastime she is fitted for--her lone skill--and publishes without bothering to catch her breath for a moment and rate the words that drone on and on. She blithely denounces Ralph Ellison, who was reluctant to risk a second novel, and swishes unseeingly by his acrid message still hanging on in the morass of literature--dangling, perhaps, more tenaciously because he never repeated himself...
...place in it by his experiments with words. Sartre sees him "as an adventurer, turning back on his language, and assuming its follies and ambiguities in order to give witness to his practical singularity." The writer infuses a text with himself by presenting it in a unique style. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man intones...
...lower frequencies, I speak for you? Any author could be speaking--what's more, this writer is deliberately shirking a human, corporeal identity--but the reader absorbs the warning through its zig-zagged rhythm, by its attachment to a style. And he will only remember the idea through Ellison thinking...
...have always been poor, but not until the advent of busing has the cry of "quality education" been raised. The very people raising that cry are those who are to blame for the school system's deplorable state: past and present School Committee members, like Hicks, Kerrigan, Tierney and Ellison. These people are making money from the crisis, and conducting the School Committee illegally in the process according to a report recently prepared by the Boston Finance Commission. Contrary to state law, the discussion of routine staff matters is regularly held in private executive sessions, and most of over...