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Furthermore, readers can come away with the encouraging feeling that these new bleak writers possess such audacity and conviction that we may have to find them a more encompassing--and cheerful--name. With Juck, we can put the timid shibboleth "Post Modernism" behind us at the same time: when authors like Carol Bly look to the future they invoke a visionary power that threatens to dilate into a new brand of fiction, one in which the characters as well as the audience are party to the author's hopes, secrets, and best-guesses. Though cantankerous, disheveled Svea dies early...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Book of the Bleak | 11/4/1983 | See Source »

...California desert to continue his test runs which seem every bit as heroic as his counterparts' trips into space. As portrayed by the playwright Sam Shepard, Yeager stands above the rest. His humility, perseverance and courage imply that even someone not lionized by the media may just possess all the right stuff as well. And the movie's reluctance to abandon Yeager, even after the rest have headed to Cape Canaveral, reveals Kaufman and Wolfe's sympathies: the success of programs like Project Mercury are due in large part to men like Yeager...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: High Flying Heros | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

...freshman or two among the committee members. It seems safe to assume that a freshman, perhaps even a sophomore, lacks the necessary experience in university matters and academic charges to place individual cases in perspective. Moreover, Princeton is a relatively small and closed community where current undergraduates might not possess the objectivity needed to decide a variety of cases...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Thou Shalt Not Cheat | 10/20/1983 | See Source »

...argument for student committee members is their supposed familiarity with undergraduate courses and undergraduates themselves will lead to a fair decision: a student judged by his peers. But the fact remains that, more likely than not, committee members consciously or unconsciously possess certain prejudices that detached officials would not have...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Thou Shalt Not Cheat | 10/20/1983 | See Source »

...many months so many people had saved money and borrowed money and borrowed on their borrowings to possess themselves of the little pieces of paper by virtue of which they became partners in U. S. Industry. Now they were trying to get rid of them even more frantically than they had tried to get them. Stocks bought without reference to their earnings were being sold without reference to their dividends. At around noon there came the no-bid menace. Even in a panic-market, someone must buy the "dumped" shares, but stocks were dropping from 2 to 10 points between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 1929 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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