Word: hoh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several years West tried to live like Natasha, "in the radiance of cultural truth," and he avariciously gulped down the most fashionable aesthet-ics-dadalsm. expressionism and futurism. But the stock market disaster that put nearly forty million men out of work made hoh-nobbing with other literary radicals on manicured Connecticut lawns grotesque sham. West's attention turned to the victims of the crisis and the calibrate fantasy worlds which mitigated their tragedies. The subject of his first novel. The Dream Life of Balso Snell, was West's own dreams. But the progress of his writing traces his broadened...
...influences. The fist is the large body of professional academics, mainly psychologists like Jones and Harvard's Jerome Bruner, who act as consulting experts and planners for the public school system. The other group includes a wide range of radical or "romantic" critics-maverick academics (Goodman), teachers (John Hoh, Herbert Kohl), technological utopians (George Leonard), and others. Among these must be included Dennison, formerly a psychotherapist, then a teacher, now a writer. After his and Jones's books, anything to emerge from the perspective of either group of writers cannot amount to much more than a footnote. That...