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...creative writing classes is his own fiction. After graduations from Harvard in 1942 and the United States Army in 1945 (where he was a communications officer who landed on Omaha Beach three days after D-Day), Engel has been writing continually. He published his first novel, A Length of Rope, in 1952, followed it with The Vision of Nicholas Solon in 1959, and Voyager Belsky in 1962. In addition to the three novels there has been a book about Dickens, the result of his Ph.D dissertation, and an edited collection called The Uses of Literature. Nineteen years after the publication...
...insecure or unrewarding, then the worker experiences a strangely intimate and fundamental sense of betrayal, a wound very close to the core. Or perhaps the wound is his discovery that the core is empty. And with that discovery, he may resort to a pistol, a length of rope or a fistful of pills, leaving behind a note: "Burned...
Wearing red berets or khaki forage caps emblazoned with buttons, Scout knives dangling from every webbed belt, the youngsters here plunge into seven days of whirlwind activity. They compete in a wilderness decathlon, pitch horseshoes, brand leather, play soccer and Frisbee, build a bridge without any rope, set up a tent blindfolded, run an obstacle course with arms tied, fish, canoe, raft, fire air rifles on a marksmanship range...
Phelps' updated dialogue offers a feminist case against marriage: "A wife is like a house dog tied with a rope. Why should I be a servant and wait upon a husband...
...Uganda awake to the consciousness of the wretchedness of having been born; and the birds of prey-the world powers-are gnawing on the bones of 2,000 million human beings. Where would the established order be on two-thirds of this planet without the machine gun or the rope, torture or exile? It is on this scale that I measure the privilege of being French...