Word: invention
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shakespeare did not achieve balance in the quality of his text. An objective inspection of the script indicates that he seems not to have had his heart in the Claudio-Hero plot he borrowed from elsewhere. His chief achievement in the play are precisely those things he had to invent himself: the witty verbal skirmishing between Beatrice and Benedick, and the portrait of bureaucratic officialdom represented by the malapropistic Dogberry and his sorry crew. (Shaw is about the only person who has denied the wit of the high comedy, perhaps because Beatrice and Benedick so closely resemble some...
Indeed, its first cover story, May 19, 1961, was a report on the American tourists' expanding affection for far places. Ever since, its columns have covered new resorts, foreign fashions, exotic foods. For this week's cover story on Guide Writer Temple Fielding, who did not really invent travel but sometimes sounds that way, the Modern Living staff was happy to make the most of its latest opportunity to leave home...
Life in California freed Nabokov of the need to write in the bathroom. But he needed all his astonishing powers of concentration and creative effort for the challenge now facing him. "It had taken me some 40 years to invent Russia and Western Europe," he wrote of the problem, "and now I was faced by the task of inventing America...
...Beppo, in fact, who finally gives Fidelman the word on his "painter's progress": "After twenty years if the rooster hasn't crowed she should know she's a hen." And it is Beppo who points instructively to the future: "If you can't invent art, invent life...
...Susan Sontag did not exist, the New York Review of Books might have had to invent her. One moment, in fact, not very long ago she did not exist. The next moment she was everywhere-the new darling of the literary set. Norman Podhoretz, author of Making It, Commentary editor and close student of cultural chic, explained the Sontag phenomenon this way: When Mary McCarthy arrived at "the more dignified status of Grande Dame," she left a vacancy as "Dark Lady of American Letters." With a timing she herself would be the first to appreciate, Miss Sontag appeared...