Word: inventer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devised her hell for pseu-dosophisticated young Canadians and a make-do formula for living in it: "If it hurts, invent a different pain." Like a good Canadian, Miss Atwood conceives of the ultimate pain as a kind of terminal frostbite: the frozen state of feeling nothing, even pain. Her narrator thinks she may have arrived at this last circle, only to discover she is not quite so dead as she presumed...
...seen to work?nobody knows why. However, with Castaneda's increasing fame have come increasing doubts. Don Juan has no other verifiable witness, and Juan Matus is nearly as common a name among the Yaqui Indians as John Smith farther north. Is Castaneda real? If so, did he invent Don Juan? Is Castaneda just putting on the straight world...
...debt-ridden parson, Alger did not have to invent his scenes of poverty. His happy endings may smack blandly of fantasy, but his harsh beginnings have the bite of realism. Like all Alger heroes, Frank Manton is first and last a survivor in a tough world - a world, Alger makes protestingly plain, of child labor, a world in which a wom an working as a seamstress might earn as little...
...sense of impotence and self-interest. The rage of the antiwar demonstrators has dissipated without a true sense of initiative or accomplishment. The once powerful liberals, pursued by such unforgiving histories as David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest, still try to understand their guilt and re-invent their philosophy...
Despite Malamud's careful portrayal of the young black writer, Willie Spearmint, and his intuition for the kind of stories Willie would invent and the plots he would pick, most blacks would probably still say that only a black writer could describe this experience. Malamud disagrees. "Anyone with imagination and a strong sense of involvement with the black experience can write about some aspect of it which in fiction will speak the truth about that experience. The key to all writing is imagination. All writers write about what they know. Even a revolutionary black writer, if he's good writer...