Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here was the way things were: "The scene was strictly for novelists, people who were writing novels and people who were paying court to The Novel. There was no room for a journalist, unless he was there in the role of would-be novelist or simple courtier of the great. There was no such thing as a literary journalist working for popular magazines or newspapers," writes Wolfe in the 1973 book, The New Journalism...
French Academies of yesteryear have transformed into the harsh scrutiny of academics in today's literati scene. To be truly accepted, a writer must be intelligent, as well as amusing. What a writer needs for inclusion in the haughty ranks of literature is substance, not style. Otherwise, it's mere journalism for you--and the "j" is said with a spitting noise, a guttural indictment of inferiority. Wolfe's critics call him a mere chronicler of the times whose attention to detail has caught our fancy, but maybe not for long...
...last week, Adams House presented a scene from the Great Depression, with the food lines reaching outside of the door. Some students waited 45 minutes to receive lunch...
Charney speculated that Bracey had set the fireon impulse because he put away his large Yalereunion pin, which stated his name, only whilerunning from the scene of the blaze...
...American Scene...