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...charges that he was an imaginative historian he replied, "There is little danger of long misleading here, for the champions of white folk are legion." Yet for all his insights, he was uneasy about his own identity. His writings are full of references to skin tone, the lighter the more becoming. "This subtext of proud hybridization is so prevalent," Lewis writes, "that the failure to notice it in the literature about him is as remarkable as the complex itself...
...charges that he was an imaginative historian he replied, "There is little danger of long misleading here, for the champions of white folk are legion." Yet for all his insights, he was uneasy about his own identity. His writings are full of references to skin tone, the lighter the more becoming. "This subtext of proud hybridization is so prevalent," Lewis writes, "that the failure to notice it in the literature about him is as remarkable as the complex itself...
...stories in Strange Pilgrims are remarkable stylistically as well as thematically. As Garcia Marquez narrates in his preface, these stories had a gestation of almost twenty years. This long travail might have made his ideas stale, but instead they seem surprisingly fresh and unaffected. Garcia Marquez's touch is lighter and more collected than in his landmark novels, his style more restrained and assured. Gone is some of his characteristic flamboyance. He almost appears to liberate himself from the magical realism which he left as legacy and burden to the writers of Latin America. He veers towards surrealism at times...
...College life committee has lately had a somewhat lighter load, focusing on daily operations of campus life, such as the approval of new student groups...
...channel is now apparently back on the air, and to aid the officers further, the University recently furnished all of Harvard's officers with new, lighter radios that offer more channels...