Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rise on the "awful ladder" of the British class system by way of a science scholarship to Oxford. The boy views himself as others do-a mod erate success. It is only in the later episodes that he comes to see himself as Novelist Golding sees him-a moral failure. Sadly, he recognizes that he is one of those who would like to pay anything for a chance to give life to himself and others, but that actually "he would never pay more than a reasonable price." It is not enough, for by then he is a successful career...
William Golding is a philosophical novelist whose moral theorems in hu man geometry are demonstrated with severe economy. His originality lies in his ability to trace complex psychological diagrams within the traditional form of the novel without technical stunts or verbal virtuosity. His art concerns extreme situations and final choices...
Styron believes that it is his moral duty and that of every white Southerner to break down the old law of apartheid and to come to know the Negro, however condescending or belated the effort may appear to be. It is partially for this reason that he has made the subject of Negro slavery his obsession for the last 20 years. His fascination grew when he researched the meager documents of the only slave revolt in American history, which occurred about 20 miles from his Virginia home...
...this same Hark who, according to Nat, "gave expression to that certain inward sense that every Negro possesses when, dating from the age of twelve or ten or earlier, he becomes aware that heis only merchandise, goods, in the eyes of all white people devoid of character or moral sense or soul." Hark called this feeling "black-assed," and it summed up the numbness and dread in every Negro...
Drug users were his primary target, but Hayes seemed equally incensed by a variety of moral and material trappings--bare feet, beards, long hair, birth control pills ("We've found birth control pills at every raid," he thundered), pre-marital intercourse, Digger-type communes, even the sort of liberated prose of the Avatar, certain columns of which lie heavily penciled on the Mayor's desk...