Word: hearses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE is much destructiveness in Tropic, but Miller manages to avoid the tediousness and peevishness which gives so much of modern literature an unsavory reputation. The wealth of his language is immense, and beneath it, one hears a tone of voice that is much too positive to ever lose itself...
Shoebox is not distracted by ordinary room noises-even loud ones-but Dersch talks into its microphone gently and takes pains to pronounce his words completely. Shoebox listens and dutifully prints numbers and symbols on a roll of paper. When it hears "false," it washes out everything it holds in...
This sort of supererogatory melodrama reached a peak of turgidity in Warren's worst novel, Band of Angels (Orville Prescott in the New York Times, 1955: "thoughtful reflections upon moral issues and psychological factors"). Amantha, the beautiful ante-bellum heroine, is setting divinity students aquiver at Oberlin College when...
Underneath the active literary world is another busy world of which the average reader seldom hears: that of the "little" magazine. Traditionally the little magazine serves two purposes: it offers a haven to the experimental, and it also gives early publication to new talent (which is not always the same...
While conducting his experimentation to discover just how the ear hears, von Bekesy developed an entire set of basic research tools such as probes, drills, microscopic scissors, and stroboscopes.