Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"In our literature we have little Englandisms-you close the doors and try to be intensely yourself. In contrast to the conspicuous consumption of America, we have developed a sense of inconspicuous hoarding. Great energy is suspect here. It looks vulgar to the English eye. England has the enormous psychological...
Just about the only area where they had not made much progress was sex. Oh, it had been tried. There was that scheme in 1980 under which each family in Europe was to be allocated permits for a certain number of children, and which compelled everyone with an IQ of...
Five years ago, hostile students at England's University of Dundee were brought around by their new rector's inauguration speech. And why not? "It is youth which has rediscovered love and humor as weapons of psychological warfare, which has endorsed biblical simplicity in the face of police...
The novels of Thomas Pynchon seem to take place in a vast, unfathomable cyclotron. Characters, ideas, metaphors, styles, pains, ecstasies, assorted objects from the Pyramids to paper clips all whirl about at enormous velocity. They collide, split into new forms, or suddenly decay, leaving behind only enigmatic smiles.
Ideological interests aside, aesthetic judgments aside, The Ruling Class remains something of a phenomenon: it is not an intellectual movie; it has enormous audience appeal; and yet it is an intelligent movie--no small accomplishment.