Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite wants to come to grips with the fact that George, despite his sweet smiles, is a careless, selfish man. Eliding the consequences of that problem, Wasserstein turns the whole bunch into an extended family--even adding a sweet-souled black policeman to the mix as Nina's consolation prize. Wasserstein can spritz New York-smart talk with the best of them, but she can't make us believe this mass conversion to sociopolitical correctness, with everybody loving and forgiving everybody despite the fact that the harms they have dealt one another remain essentially unresolved...
...first writer to take fictional liberties with Scripture. He won't be the last. But his new effort proves to be one of the more successful reimaginings. Readers and critics in Britain thought so: when Quarantine was published there last year, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award...
Molly Hennessey-Fiske '99 won the Boylston Speaking Prize for her rendition of a selection from Virginia Woolfe's A Room of One's Own during the contest's final round, held in the Yenching Auditorium last night...
...Boylston Prize dates from the early 19th century, when Professor of Rhetoric Thomas Boylston bequeathed money for the annual prize...
What on earth could have inspired Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning (not to mention New York Times best-selling) author, to begin her latest work with such a verbose, grammatically-clumsy sentence? An attempted strive for originality in the increasingly-formulaic world of American literature? A desire to jump to the opposite end of the writing spectrum--or, in this case, to an entirely different dimension--than that of her last piece Moo, about a corrupt university? Most importantly, does Smiley's new take on an old-fashioned technique of writing work...