Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The big difference in the issue this year was the energy crisis: with a first semester ending before Christmas, the University could shut down for the entire month of January and, the reasoning went, save enormous amounts of fuel. But someone eventually pointed out that Harvard's fuel allotments are...
For, as Tarnopol himself says, "his self is to many a novelist what his own physiognomy is to a painter of portraits: the closest subject at hand demanding scrutiny, a problem for his art to solve--given the enormous obstacles to truthfulness, the artistic problem." The novelist, of course, has...
Summerlin attributes his actions to "complete mental exhaustion" that numbed his judgment. He blames this breakdown on what he felt to be a frenetic situation at S.K.I. At the time of the mouse-painting incident, Summerlin, who was the youngest full-fledged member of the institute, was engaged in 25...
In his feeling for the almost reflexive defenses of masculine camaraderie and for its excesses, with his eye and grudging affection for Western lowlife, Cimino has an obvious affinity for the work of Sam Peckinpah. What really animates Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, though, and makes it distinctive is its shellbursts of...
Writing about nuclear physics and the creative process of a bomb maker for an audience that does not understand mathematics, moreover, is a bit like writing music criticism for the deaf. McPhee manages very well, using the life and thought of Theoretical Physicist Ted Taylor as a way into the...