Word: redux
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...attend a two-hour Sanders Theater oration on plagiarism delivered by a certain Professor Richard Marius. He gleefully explained the dos and don'ts, the expellable and the suspendable, the dishonest and the stupid. For all the intricacies about uncited paraphrases and mislabelled footnotes, the message was seventh grade redux: plagiarism will get you in deep, deep trouble. That was our introduction to Harvard...
...market- minded listeners may have wondered if they could find some way that the book could be pitched as anything but . . . depressing. There was no need to worry. This fourth, and presumably final, installment of the life and times of Harold C. Angstrom -- Rabbit Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981) -- is far more upbeat than its subject matter would seem to warrant. And in the bargain it manages to be both poignant and excruciatingly funny...
Rabbit is supposed to be the normal guy doing what every other American of his time period is doing. In Updike's previous works--Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich--Rabbit not only followed the times but willingly fit himself to them. In the fifties he was a quiet basketball hero. In the sixties he did drugs and led a varied sexual life. In the seventies he settled down to life on his father...
...AFRO-AM REDUX...
...AFRO-AM REDUX...