Word: sheppards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author, is the history of the commoner before his betters. But in Elian's retelling, everyman proves uncommon, and a mockingbird sits on his shoulder. When these Millses leave, they go noisily, and the echo they leave behind is the rocking sound of the last laugh. - By R.Z. Sheppard...
...Naturally, the American wants a volume discount. The native craftsman has a more natural idea. Turning to an interpreter, he says: "Tell this silly qallunaaq that the more of them I make alike, the more expensive it will be, because it will be more boring to make them!" -ByR.Z. Sheppard...
...separated; in another, "we always experience Mozart's music ... as the catharsis resulting from one man's sublimation of his personal crisis." Mozart is certainly elusive, as Hildesheimer claims, but here he is hidden twice: once behind his music and again behind his latest biographer. -By R.Z. Sheppard...
...fiction, however, will find such matters of secondary interest. Will Knott, who sketches his surroundings on the backs of K-ration boxes, speaks to William Wharton's ideal reader when he says that his drawing "makes things more real; at the same time, not so real." -By R.Z. Sheppard...
...Sheppard...