Word: preachments
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...sustained surprise. The structure -- A meets B, B meets C, and so on until the last character encounters A -- comes from Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde. In that piece, set in fin-de-siecle Vienna, sex crosses social lines, allowing commentary, and serves as a metaphor for syphilis, permitting preachment. LaChiusa resists the obvious AIDS allusion. His love connections are timeless, and hopeless. Yet consistently thwarting his characters does not impede the ribald, puckish entertainment...
...deviously or directly, from knocking about through one's own life, and Proulx did her share of that. She married and divorced three times and has three grown sons. But she says that the autobiographical content of her fiction is "zero" and urges young novelists to ignore the customary preachment to write about what they know. "Write about what's interesting," she says. "Write about what you'd like to know...
...novel shifts easily and cinematically from present to past. Some contemporary passages are a bit dutiful, but at her best Brady writes with a poet's economy, evoking Jonathan's chaotic century in brief detonations of imagery. Without preachment, Theory of War says slavery involves more than the loss of freedom. It also means life without illusion and a lingering nightmare of anger that can pass from parent to child. That "secret bond," as Brady calls it, may be the most terrible consequence of America's greatest tragedy...
...mega-message would be better received if it were broached first by a third party whose analysis he could thereafter second. This is the key to understanding Clinton's governing style. As the historian Arthur Schlesinger notes, Clinton views successful leadership as a process of persuasion rather than preachment. Throughout the campaign, Clinton scored repeatedly by engaging voters in a dialogue that demonstrated his knowledge of public issues while at the same time convincing his audiences that he heard their concerns and was actually learning from the colloquy...
...derived from English Whigs; Protestant churches, mostly Bible reading and "low" in ritual and theology; and a near religious belief in the virtues of working hard and getting rich. These traits reinforced one another: pulpits proliferated under nonauthoritarian government, and the work ethic flourished under the stimulus of earnest preachment...