Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Martin H. Peretz, lecturer on Social Studies, gave up his position as master of South House last June in order to devote full time to his recent purchase, The New Republic--the liberal, intellectual weekly magazine of politics and arts...
...Eight," Martin's father said...
...What?" Martin's father asked...
Although much of the dialogue is of this simple nature, the stream of consciousness and diary passages of the novel are very elegant in their prose, though occasionally a little too literary. The diary of Alpha, a primary school teacher who married Martin Neumiller, discusses the philosophy of religion along with her new school marm duties. Yet the portrayal of women is highly sensitive and the pattern of symbols in the novel, particularly in the discussions of time and the land, is rich and complex...
...when that seems only to be the beginning. This explains Shaffer's retraction in the program: that he wanted to interpret the events of the boy's crime "in some entirely personal way," and that "psychiatrists are an immensely varied breed, professing immensely varied methods and techniques" and that Martin Dysart is just one doctor in one hospital...