Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...efforts in this study are an unpopular cuase, but we must be involved in many unpopular causes. We must deal with violence in the prisons if we are to make progress in prison reform. We cannot greet every effort to deal directly with violent behavior with emotional attacks. We cannot be against all efforts to change things in the prison system. We are advocating change, change which recognizes and deals with these serious problems in the current system of correction. William J. Curran...
...always emphasized his status as an American writer because America has the richest vocabulary in history, graced with an unparalleled number of technical terms and vigorous, constantly changing slang. Even its cliches are at the highest level. That is why, in Nabokov's opinion, the best writing in progress today is being done by Americans...
There are solipistic worlds of totalitarian horror, as in the recently republished Bend Sinister. And the best thing is that there are still other creations to come: a novel in progress, a projected "history of butterflies in pictorial representation," another volume of autobiography--from a source that has proved so reliable...
...likely. The essential point of last week's negotiations was that both sides earnestly wanted peace, and the untiring efforts of one man could help them achieve it. If this much progress could be gained in only six days, then shuttle diplomacy had certainly proved its worth...
...around them. For these men literary conventions only pose limitations and rules to be broken, and narrative becomes hopelessly narcissistic. In John Barth's story, Lost in the Funhouse, for example, the author interrupts to explain the narrative techniques of the short story while the tale is in progress. Barth then shows contempt for these forms and simultaneously complains that his story is getting nowhere. Like his protagonist and the other anti-novelists, he is lost in the funhouse...