Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the previously set-up formula, activist Hoffman's self-induced end should have sounded the death knell for the generations' hopes. The beacon of idealism, the one who, unlike so many others, never sold out, had admited defeat and in a fit of exhaustion slid into death's enticing embrace...
This type of self-criticism and analysis will be familiar to readers of Small World and Changing Places, as will the characters of Phillip Swallow and Morris Zapp, who both play cameo roles here...
...exactly what the NEA was created, in 1965, to do -- and it was the wisest of decisions. Lots of admirable art does badly at first; its rewards to the patron are not immediate and may never come. Hence the need for the NEA. It is there to help the self-realization of culture that is not immediately successful...
...Game. And that was pretty much the way it went with him thereafter. There was nothing he couldn't write, so there was nothing he didn't write. Preoccupied by productivity and the demands of his life- style, he had no time left to develop the guiding vision of self and world a major novelist needs...
Hwang had not always been so sensitive, so ready to take offense. Although his parents were immigrants and he visited relatives in Manila and Taipei, this self-described "Chinese-Filipino-American, born-again-Christian kid from suburban Los Angeles" felt "scarcely more connection than the average white" between Asian life and his own. "I read Pearl Buck in high school and didn't see anything wrong. I still like Charlie Chan movies. The whole thing about being of Chinese descent seemed an interesting detail, as if I had red hair. But not everyone saw it that way." So Hwang embarked...