Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another short-changing of literature and life to which Epstein object is ideology at either the heart of a novel or the core of criticism. Borrowing Clauswitz's definition of war, he accuses Doctorow and Coover of using literature to wage "politics by other means." He devotes four essays to rehabilitating the reputations of James G. Cozzens, John Dos Passo Var. Wyck Brooks, and Willa Cather, all of whom be considers unjustly neglected by the prejudice of liberal critics. Cather he "rescues" from the crown of lesbianism...
...another in the 1930s) did not commit himself to painting until after his 41st birthday. Yet by the end of the war, and especially by 1947 -- when he exhibited his riotously funny and touching series of portraits of French intellectuals and writers -- Dubuffet's work was not only an object of public scandal but also an essential part of the imagery of postwar France, like Sartre's writings...
...insists that he is not working for the CIA. But Reagan Administration officials know about and tacitly approve of the former general's activities. As Singlaub told TIME Correspondent Ross H. Munro: "I try to communicate, sometimes by telephone: 'This is what I am about to do. If you object to it, send me a signal.' " So far, he says, none has come...
...announced that he had just about zeroed in on the best place for Muller or Chester to look for the death star. He has plotted the paths of 126 comets and discovered to his great surprise that they journey around the sun in oddly skewed orbits. Some very powerful object must be out there gravitationally directing the flow of traffic, he says, and that object could be Nemesis...
...argue that it was an asteroid as large as 500 ft. across and weighing 7 million tons, which rapidly heated as it entered the earth's atmosphere and exploded about five miles above ground. Others believe it was a small comet. Whatever the cause, the destructive power of the object from space rivaled that of a very large nuclear warhead; scientists gauge the explosion at twelve megatons...