Word: pickwick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...satire of scholarship and art -- Chatterton's death by poison comes not out of despair but in the hope of finding a cure for the clap. Yet the poet himself is a poignant re-creation, and the supporting cast of irrepressible eccentrics might have tumbled from a chapter of Pickwick Papers. On a train, Wychwood literally devours a novel, rolling the pages into balls and popping them into his mouth...
College Quiz H-R Black Students Assoc & Dunster House Black Table Intramural volleyball & track H-R Undergraduate Council Pickwick Magazine...
...journey, Helprin, 36, strains for comparisons to his 19th century master. The names of characters could have been culled from the pages of The Pickwick Papers: the Rev. Mootfowl, Pearly Soames, Rupert Binky, Daythril Moobcot, Hardesty Marratta, Jesse Honey. The portraits of the huddled poor, the satirically named newspapers (the Evening Ghost, the Morning Whale) all echo Dickens' works. But it is Oliver without a Twist, Chuzzle minus...
Great Expectation: Give Pip one expectation and then bring off the pertinent references together in a few pithy chapters. Imagine how much time you'd save--surely enough to real both Hard Time and The Pickwick Paper in one sitting...
Stone said that Pickwick would not compete with the Lampoon. "We encourage members of any organization to submit pieces," he said...