Word: fragmentism
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Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories, by Dylan Thomas. A prose epitaph from the legendary poet of Laugharne, containing a fragment of a novel and 20 other tales, all as panurgent, eloquent and unpredictable as the man himself (TIME...
...About two hours before death it was decided to administer oxygen. The wrong valves were accidentally opened on the oxygen tank, with the result that a glass container exploded. A fragment of glass struck the President on the forehead, but, fortunately, with slight injury . . . During the last two hours of life the patient was attended by me alone, in the presence of the President and Mrs. Coolidge and a nurse. From time to time I examined the heart and was astounded by the President requesting that he be permitted to listen to the heart sounds...
Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories, by Dylan Thomas. A prose epitaph from the legendary poet of Laugharne, containing a fragment of a novel and 20 other tales, all as panurgent, eloquent and unpredictable as the man himself (TIME...
...Communists had good reason to change their foreign policy. It was not winning. For all his cleverness, Molotov has failed to fragment NATO, has seen France's and Italy's Communists losing strength, has lost his desperate bid to keep a powerful West Germany out of the Atlantic Alliance. Moscow now seems engaged in its own agonizing reappraisal...
...wildly--to answer in his first four novels. Rubin contends that in the ten chapters of the unfinished The Hills Beyond, Wolfe ascends from the turmoil of his mind, and approaches some kind of artistic objectivity toward his life and toward the forces that had shaped him. In this fragment, Wolfe no longer translates his experiences directly into prose, but has begun to sift and temper them through the medium of his nearly mature artistic creativity...