Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign kitty. Finally, the self-effacing general feared that if he did not stage a preventive coup, a cabal of young officers would beat...
DuBois, died self-exiled in Ghana just six years ago. DuBois composed the poem that here accompanies and reveals the hidden thunder of Bellows' Both Members of This Club. Again, it was DuBois who wrote the classic prose statement of what lies deepest in black blues: "After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son born with a veil and gifted with second sight in this American world-a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation...
...advises buyers to forget his own schemes and urges them to figure out their own. That way they may learn something about taste and design. Also about frustration. For though the pieces fit together easily enough, producing a balanced and pleasing arrangement is a true test of ingenuity and self-control. Says one new planetarian: "I couldn't stop. I worked until dawn and got so irritated I nearly screamed. Vasarely's paintings always looked like child's play to me. Now I understand all the long years of work behind them...
...Waterfall, Miss Drabble's self-victimizing heroine is the well-inhibited product of a "faintly clerical background." Jane Gray finds life's natural processes an overwhelming ordeal. Marriage is a great unease. Pregnancy is "almost unendurably frightening...
...less intelligent and less hung-up novelists than Miss Drabble, the Jameses of literature have been just the priapic princes to deliver a fair princess from her prison tower. For Miss Drabble, sexual love can also lead to the ultimate trap in which puritan self finally gives hedonist self the punishment it deserves. "I will invent a morality that condones me," Jane cries in desperation. "Though by doing so, I risk condemning all that I have been...