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Democrats, who are gradually coming to appreciate this, seem daunted by the prospect of developing a vision, but it’s not as monumental a project as it sounds. In this case, the task is less a matter of invention than articulation. The point is not to abandon outrage and invent a vision to replace it—in fact, the positive vision already exists beneath the Left’s complaints, and a formula for bringing it out lies within the outrage itself...
...Came In from the Cold was more than a page-turner. In an act of literary spycraft, Le Carre had smuggled a great human drama inside a pulp paperback. He helped invent a new kind of novel, the literary thriller, and devised one to speak to the anxious pace, global scale and deadly stakes of 20th century geopolitics. Spy and the books that followed it, notably those starring the fictional spymaster George Smiley, laid bare the ticking watchwork of power and subterfuge that underlies our daily lives and established Le Carre as one of the principal fictional chroniclers of modern...
Traveling en masse was once occasioned mainly by such events as reunions or bachelor parties. Now travelers invent their own occasions, whether it's an all-girls outing, a male-bonding trip or a multifamily jaunt. Singles say they prefer to travel with pals, without the baggage of loneliness and the extra single-supplement charges for traveling alone. But even married couples cite the urge to get away with the gang. "People assume those who travel with friends are single, but that's not the case anymore," says Cathy Keefe of the Travel Industry Association of America...
...Australian soldiers who hated the obscurities of modernist poetry conspired to invent Malley, a working-class genius, and fabricate his verse. Then they hoodwinked the editors of an Australian literary journal--called Angry Penguins, no less--into publishing the poems and proclaiming him an unsung master along the lines of T.S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas. But even after the prank was exposed, the poems outfoxed the pranksters. In-tended as satire of 20th century verse, they were taken up by readers as exemplary modernist beauties. Today you can find them in the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, duly credited...
...Contract with God" gathered all of these narrative strategies together between the covers of a single publication - and set the pace for those who would follow. Will Eisner has, without question, done more to advance the medium of comics than just about anyone. But he didn't invent the graphic novel form; nor did he coin the term (as he would be among the first to acknowledge). R.C. Harvey Champaign...