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Slum Child. But the author of Anna of the Five Towns, The Old Wives' Tale, the Clayhanger trilogy and Ricey-man Steps was also a superb storyteller and a literary innovator, a Dickens shorn of romanticism. By imposing on the sentimental Edwardian fabric the realistic techniques he had absorbed from such French masters as Goncourt, Flaubert, Maupassant and Turgenev (whom he insisted on calling French because it was in that language that he read him), Bennett became the first popular novelist of his time to tell of the actual lives of recognizable people in words that ordinary readers could...
...piston rings, things usually dug out of pantry drawers. Much of it is deliberately absurd: witness a board embedded with hand compasses; a cubbyholed compartment with cork balls, alphabet blocks and a seashell; or a case containing 15 shot glasses called Petite Musée. They are all symbols shorn of obvious symbolism, junk treasured to jangle the imagination. The work has roots in the cubism of Braque, where newspaper clippings were glued amid the oils, and branches embracing the Dada of Marcel Duchamp. But Cornell's intent is neither to fracture space nor make satire...
...Quang so far had failed to arouse any widespread popular resentment against Ky and his government. The muscle of rebellion has been provided by I Corps Vietnamese soldiers who have remained loyal to Thi despite his ouster. If Thi and Ky can come to terms, the Buddhists will be shorn of their main allies...
Examining the wreckage of the BOAC airliner that crashed near Mount Fuji in March, U.S. and Japanese experts detected hairline cracks in the Boeing 707's shorn-off tail assembly. By last week the examination had spread to scores of Boeing jets around the world...
...scholarly study of religion, shorn of both catechism and clericalism, is fast becoming a major subject in secular U.S. colleges and universities. Two decades ago, only a dozen state-supported campuses had full-fledged religion programs; elsewhere, religion was usually nothing more than the Bible as literature, taught by English professors. Now, says Cyrus Pangborn, head of Rutgers' religion department, "universities recognize that the study of religion is as respectable a discipline as philosophy or sociology...