Word: reminders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NABOKOV IS among the most "writerly" of writers, consciously making use of a whole series of poses and tones to tell his transparent tale, intervening to remind the reader of the creator behind it all. For a man who despises the novel of ideas, the telling is everything. Here it is accomplished through the voice guiding us within the transparent world, through bits of the psychoanalytic interrogation Person goes through after his crime, through a letter from old R., through a single quotation from Person's prison journal. The prose slips seamlessly from tone to tone, now reportorial, now lyrical...
...Morrison found last week, can be hard work. "For one thing," he says, "the elements in this essay are so compelling and interwoven that you can summarize them no more easily than a Nabokov novel. And journalists are so accustomed to burning the midnight bulb that you have to remind yourself repeatedly that things can be different in other lines of work...
...EARLIER SEARCH for salvation, Berners switched from doing cosmetic plastic surgery on the rich to performing curative surgery on the poor for what he thinks is his son's sake. But their hareditary diseases, bred of poverty and neglect, remind him of the alleged physical force contaminating the younger generation. When he then looks for spiritual salvation, however, he cannot avoid the concrete realities surrounding him in city streets and hospital corridors. Bends of bearded youths and have krishna dancers with the faces of cheerleaders allow him to toy with the idea of a Second Coming...
...Seeger often refers in concert to Alan Lomax, who collected a lot of backwoods songs for the Library of Congress. This is work which Seeger believes in very strongly. "People often tend to forget their own culture," he says. "It takes somebody from the outside to come in and remind them...
...routes and the subway system-the city's bone structure. The guide duly describes and portrays such Philadelphia splendors as Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed, the old residential area of Society Hill, the Beaux Arts vistas of Ben Franklin Parkway. But the authors always remind the reader that there is a lot of ordinary, gritty urban landscape between such touristic highlights, and that these gaps-not the landmarks alone-give the city its texture, content and life. They thus unabashedly show Philadelphia's dilapidated docks, bleak slums, traffic jams and ubiquitous graffiti-the real...