Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WILLIAMS' hard. compact style wrings every ounce of meaning from his words. His ability to flesh out characters and scenes is a pleasure to observe: he has an exciting way of making his characters come alive-not jump but flow off the pages seep into the reader's mind so that, at a certain point in the novel, the character suddenly emerges, fully-fleshed and fully-human. Quickly and easily Williams skerches the relationship between his central characters: Browning, the Don. a now-inactive Mafia kingpin, and Itzhak Hod, the triggerman...
...when the fleeting thought has passed through your mind that politics might be the liberation of everyone and everything and you discover it is still the raw and frightening war that Hobbes said it was three hundred years ago, that can be a frustrating experience. That can make you want to pick up the gun. Or become apolitical...
...confusion that surrounds the growth of the University's committees is mind-boggling. The only thing to compare it to is the confusion that shrouds the factions of SDS. Indeed, both segments of the University have grown so complicated that you need a program to know the players...
...blush on the cheek of modesty." Certainly the Family Shakespeare (first edition 1807, second edition 1818) became the most popular expurgation in literary history. It gave Bowdler's name immortality as part of the language. But Perrin is up against not one man but a state of mind, and he has had the wit and learning to expand− his study into a brilliant little work of cultural history...
...John happens to be a sort of Harvard anachronism-he is a full-fledged jock. "I place equal importance on academics and athletics. I have no time for radical politics or social involvement. And I don't mind being called a jock." he said...