Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Olympian is distinguished from the garden-variety athlete, at least in the U.S., by a fairly uniform obscurity. Except for two weeks every four years, the Olympian is roundly ignored. Thanks to lavish surpluses from the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, amateur facilities and finances have improved. But even...
It is as though he were able to follow his characters into slang or thought disorder not because he identifies with their madness or participates in their emotion, but because he is such a knowledgeable and transparent narrator. From moment to moment, on the level of detail, DeLillo lets the...
Despite DeLillo's fictional explanations, Oswald remains a cipher. He is a confusion, even to himself. He reads and writes with pain and difficulty. He repeats to himself, as if it were a mantra, his suspicion that, "There is a world within the world." Everything, he believes, is about him...
Is Nora's biography essential for Joycean scholars to understand what was going on inside Joyce's mind when he was writing his masterpiece? Will it inspire in Joyce's admirers a desire to go back and re-read all of his works and give them new meaning? In the...
Still, there's something disconcerting about the purists who view last night's first game under the lights at the old ball field as Black Monday. One novelist was interviewed some time ago about the impending tragedy. He waxed philosophical about the meaning of the game, the importance of leisure...