Word: one-of-a-kind
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Both types of Vonnegut fans--the groupies who thrive on Vonnegut's simplistic reductions of life's problems into phrases like "So it goes," and those who go for his one-of-a-kind style and sarcastic commentary on life in the U.S.--will come away from Jailbird more than satisfied. And if the reader hails from within Harvard's ivy-covered walls, the sense of fulfillment will no doubt prove even more complete--Jailbird is not just another of the current rash of "life after Harvard" novels. Instead, it clearly portrays the vast dichotomy between the way the world...
Shaplen takes an awesome expanse of history and personalizes it. A Turning Wheel is a giant reporter's notebook, crammed with essential details and one-of-a-kind observations. When he injects himself into the story--his feelings on seeing Nagasaki five hours after the bomb was dropped; his conversations with Mao and Marcos--the story comes to life...
...poem is a one-of-a-kind, heart-made object. To make one right takes a great deal of silence: also hearing nothing but one's own voice. Poetry exacts its measure of pain, but that is not to be confused with anguish. Anguish is what has obsessed many of our best-known "confessional poets," including Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. They also expressed some joys, but in the end depression always tipped the balance. Lowell fought the dank beast throughout his life. Berryman, Plath and Sexton took their own lives when, as Rilke wrote...
...ultimate desk: a T-shaped, 7-ft.-long slab of teak, rosewood or African kevazenga; it rests on a mirrored aluminum pedestal and delivery of $10,000 to Lehigh-Leopold Furniture Co. Or she may pin her love on his chest, in the form of a $3,000, one-of-a-kind Countess Mara necktie, described as a "blossoming 14-karat gold rose studded with genuine brilliantly faceted diamonds, mounted on imported silk-cut velvet...
Mack plays down the importance of "trauma" in Lawrence's development, and focuses instead on his subject's creativity. This emphasis makes a great deal of sense, since Lawrence had without doubt a one-of-a-kind imagination. The study of medieval romances consumed him as an undergraduate, and even as a boy he dreamed of someday helping an oppressed people to free themselves. The Arab campaign gave Lawrence his own modern Crusade, Mack says, and the Turks became the dragon for this latter-day St. George to slay...