Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficulty in Barry's early narrative is his feeble pseudo-Freudian attempt to explain Aurore Dupin's later adoption of a "male" personality--George Sand. Shortly before her father's death, she was dressed in a military uniform like her father's. "Not yet four, not yet George Sand, she had found her costume, that of a male," Barry writes. He describes several other childhood incidents: the secret games she played with her imaginary personal god (her first fictional creation), a male who was dressed as a female for special rites; her mourning grandmother calling...
...honorable 19th century fig ure who believed that there was some thing disreputable about a poet who did not earn his own living. It is only upon examination of the spark gap of fact into idea, or material into metaphor that the author is helpless. "I cannot explain the leap from juvenile verses to Sunday Morning, " she concludes, "but we have seen many intimations of its coming." Those intimations are reward enough for the Stevens appreciator. By the final chapter the creative act alone remains, as always, unreachable: in Wallace Ste vens' memorable phrase, "the palm...
...begin building the "structure of peace" he sought and lay the foundations for a "permanent foreign policy"? In his behalf, Kissinger can mount an impressive case. His design for a global foreign policy included a comprehensive economic, political and military approach with long-term goals. He has sought to explain the new reality that although America is still the world's greatest economic power and possesses massive military strength, "we no longer enjoy meaningful nuclear supremacy." For Kissinger, this has meant the imperative of survival: building a process of negotiation and the policy of detente. It has meant playing...
...Fight. K turned out to be little better than L. She got a cabin cruiser, but Rees left her, too, when he found out that she was a "lesbian swinger and crazy." Eluding the purported gunmen -he did not explain how-the fugitive moved on, alone, to Albuquerque and Santa Fe, "where every time I looked around the FBI was on my trail...
Would-be surgeons are required to study Gray's Anatomy before walking into the operating room. They ought to study Mortal Lessons as assiduously. Medical texts can only teach the location of the internal organs and explain the techniques of surgery. Richard Selzer forces physicians to think about the morality of medicine - and to search for meaning in the rituals of an art "at once murderous, painful, healing and full of love...