Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ship of Fools, Porter...
...crop of playwrights and novelists, mostly from the grubby lower reaches of provincial life, hammered furiously at the deadening smugness of their society. It was a time when many of their countrymen were groping for a new sense of purpose and national identity. "Nobody thinks, nobody cares," cried Jimmy Porter, the non-hero of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. "There aren't any good, brave causes left. If the big bang does come, and we all get killed off, it'll just be for the Brave New-nothing-very-much-thank...
...than Oriental subtlety of the author's device will be recognized instantly by cryptographers, Talmudic scholars, unscramblers of step-by-step directions for assembling toy rocket launchers, and other delvers into meaning's inmost leaf. Shading his words as finely as a subdeb writing home from Miss Porter's (the prom "was marvelous but not marvelous"), Wilson makes it clear that his hero is one of life's least impressive Georges-more Porgie than Washington...
...Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (2) 3. A Shade of Difference, Drury (3) 4. Genius, Dennis (7) 5. Ship of Fools, Porter...
Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. Human folly afloat and ashore...