Word: formlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERHAPS a novel should not be judged solely on the basis of an ideological critique, so it is worth noting that this book is dreadfully lacking in style, too. Flood apologizes halfway through the book: "How do you write a beautifully constructed book about a completely formless situation?" Flood never answers that question, which might be excused if it demonstrated a purpose in the novel-showing that the war was indeed formless-but Flood's picture of the war is so incomplete that any conclusion would be laughable...
...many stories, the neat ironies, the tiny vertebrae give way to something more formless, confusion without any supportive skeleton. In "Convalescing," a man traumatized by a car accident tries to understand his wife...
...many Americans, these activities typify a leaderless, formless and wildly eclectic movement that is variously called sensitivity training, encounter, "therapy for normals," the bod biz, or the acidless trip. Such terms merely describe the more sensational parts of a whole that is coming to be known as the human potentials movement -a quest conducted in hundreds of ways and places, to redefine and enrich the spirit of social...
...back again. Then he intercepted the circle with five new academic buildings (a student center, lecture hall, library, administration building and arts center) set along an angular pedestrian "spine." These new buildings gave personality and vigor to the college and landscape, thus resolving Fredonia's great problem of formless anonymity. Moreover, they never turn their backs on their older neighbors; rather the new honor and upgrade the old. It is an architecture of good manners-and should set the tone for future buildings at Fredonia...
Heady Days. Fifer is typical of the residue of tough-minded collegians left after a powerful but formless wave of students came rushing onto the scene in May to establish a beachhead in conventional politics. Summer started, school ended, and predictably most of the student volunteers have forsaken figurative for littoral beaches. But those who remain are hard at work registering voters, gathering petitions, computerizing, analyzing their mistakes in the spring primaries, interested in winning on the issues rather than losing with elan. Their principal goal in November is to elect a Congress that will end the Viet...