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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a similar book on Beckett that contains an elaborate chart of the "genealogy" of Beckett's work. The aim is to show how unified the whole oeuvre is in a movement towards its own final extinction. Molloy is a descendent of Watt, and a cousin to Mercier et Camier; Godot is grandfather to Lessness. Alvarez's book is written at a time and from a critical viewpoint that successfully demonstrate this Beckettian family of worlds in generation, and gives a sense of its underlying rhythms. For Beckett, the search for less--and finally for nothing--is the search...
...years it has been the preoccupation of French novelists of the nouveau roman-Alain Robbe-Grillet, Mark Saporta, et al.73151;to build their fictions exclusively from facts, objects, appearances, surfaces and the impressions of the moment. Even when the method works, the result is long-winded; but it can have the illusionist beauty of pointillism that only makes sense as the onlooker steps back...
...fire truck doesn't slow when traditions or institutions get in the road ahead. Take Harvard and a question about its contributions to U.S. government--the Kissingers, the Bundys, the Richardsons, et...
such measures primarily affect the "market system," the collection of small retailers and individually practicing physicians, owners of car-repair shops and artists, pornographers et al., who, in a competitive system, are supposed to set prices according to what the market will bear Yet inflation, Galbraith says, is not caused by the market system, but by the far more powerful "planning system"-the big corporations that have gained near-total long-range control over their products' supplies, production, innovations, a manipulatable demand level, financing-and thus prices. In order to slow inflation caused by the planning system, Galbraith argues...
...title page carries a notice that "This book was written especially for Tommy Snooks with love and kisses from Grandma Snooks." The line below the title says, "Your personal story by the magic computer." Thereafter, in the four titles so far to be offered, Tommy and Tuggles and Snuggles, et al. do all sorts of things. Get a giraffe for a pet (My Friendly Giraffe), have a party (My Birthday Land Adventure), travel around as the representative of Santa Claus (My Special Christmas), and go to an animal fair (My Jungle Holiday...