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The lot of underground newspapers anywhere in the U.S. is a hard one, inasmuch as the papers often reflect a zest for rebellion and four-letter words. But the case of the Street Journal & San Diego Free Press is something special. Intelligible and far from salacious, it manages to denounce...
-Oliver Goldsmith (1770) I INTIL recently only dyspeptic phi-V-' losophers, conservationists and a handful of academics dared to question the proposition that economic expansion necessarily fosters human progress. Each jump of the national output of goods and services has been treated as a triumph, each fall as a...
Segal skillfully uses secondary characters to add complexity to his story. Not only do we have tension between Oliver and Jenny, we have a second conflict between Oliver and his father the man who can't get through to his son because they are both too proud. (A working knowledge...
Segal's Love Story provides a good example of another use to which the secondary character can be put. Jenny's father, while having little to do with the plot per se. shows that Jenny is indeed from a poor Italian family, for now she is at Radcliffe this is...
The final element to consider in the handling of the plot is time. The passage of time can cause events as well as follow from them; that is, if you announce a movement forward in time, you can also have the characters accomplish an action without necessitating lengthy explanations. In...