Word: problem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inflation is, quite simply, the Federal Government's printing more worthless paper money to compensate for past and future worthless policy [Oct. 22]. It is a deep and worsening problem that will never be solved until every aspect of our society identifies and re-examines its own position. Then we must have the courage to change...
...Problem: Which has he more profoundly betrayed...
...Problem: Something feels wrong? What...
...Problem: What to do about it? His craftsmanship is clear in his depiction of supermarket and bridge-club life. But those in the John Gardner camp of moral fiction would charge that Updike's skillfulness does not become a vision until he guides his characters, and thus his readers, to the higher ground of moral purpose...
INSTEAD UPDIKE plunges us into a scrutiny of the alienated characters. In "Love Song for a Moog Synthesizer," for instance, he binds us in the "spirals of indignation" of a Cub Scout den mother. Throughout the collection of short stories, Updike stalks the problem of human disconnectedness from all imaginable angles, realistically fleshing it out in "Domestic Life in America," abstracting it in his geometric "Problems," sketching a symbolic outline in the opening piece, "Commercial," recasting it as classical tragedy in "Augustine's Concubine." But he refuses to hunt out the solutions in the diseased scenarios. His "maimed and fanatic...