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...Wales, Scotland, and England. The success or failure of this movement is significant for the United States because America and England share many of the same urban problems--congestion, segregation, and rundown housing. Only a few private corporations have attempted pre-preplanned cities in the United States. If the English new towns are successful, the U.S. Government might undertake a comprehensive program of such towns...
...become more widely known in the United States in recent years as his writings have been include Labyrinths, Ficciones, Dream Tigers, Other Inquisitions, and A Personal Anthology. In 1961 he received the International Publishers Prize. He is director of the National Library of Argentina, and professor of American and English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires...
...subcommittees, made up of students from the departments to be studied, will examine the English, Geology, Linguistics, and History departments this year...
...symbol-minded Joyce, the fabric of the story is not as it seams; with his unique portmanteauhold on language, he gives every line a sinister dexterity and gleanings of meanings. Finnegan, for example, is a Franco-English pun: fin-again-literally, resurrection. In a word, it sums up Joyce's epic of eternal recurrence in which Finnegan-Earwicker goes through mankind's plunge and rise as he "falls" asleep only in the end to "wake" to life. H. C. Earwicker's initials, as he himself explains, also stand for Here Comes Everybody and Haveth Childers Everywhere...
Tragicomic Figure. The Manor, written between 1953 and 1955 but now appearing for the first time in English, could be the breakthrough book to gain Singer the wider audience he deserves. Like all of his fiction (The Magician of Lublin, Gimpel the Fool), this work is a subtle form of autobiography, projecting the author's own sense of exile. It embraces a quarter of a century of change in the life of a Jewish family near Warsaw in 1863. If the time and plot sound remote, the theme is not. The central character is a kind of petit bourgeois...