Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...torrent of action on education and the reminiscence about it that pour from the White House is forceful evidence that its occupant recalls his own school days with singular relish and vividness. Before he turned to politics in 1932 at the age of 24, Lyndon Johnson was a not-to-be-ignored student in half a dozen schools and a teacher at three levels: grammar school, high school and college...
...LOVED CHILDREN, by Christina Stead. This singular novel of family life was considered too intemperate when it was first published in 1940. Now, countless case studies later, Miss Stead's distillation of the warfare between neurotic parents rings terrifyingly true...
...LOVED CHILDREN, by Christina Stead. This singular novel of family life was considered too intemperate when it was first published in 1940. Now, countless case studies later, Miss Stead's distillation of the warfare between neurotic parents rings terrifyingly true...
...Singular Ginger. The novelist who is most truly black and funny about sex and death is James Patrick ("Mike") Donleavy, 42, who was born in Brooklyn, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and now divides his time between London and the Isle of Man. Donleavy succeeds better than any of the others in combining the age-old immediacy of priapic comedy with an excruciatingly contemporary sense of human absurdity. He might best be described as a uniquely modern Aristophanist with an existential horror of death...
Donleavy's second novel, A Singular Man, is more ambitious and less successful. Ostensibly the story of George Smith, a beleaguered self-made millionaire, the book is really an almost plotless fantasy set in a New York City that is ruled by death and death's symbols. In it, the author's comic mask slips to reveal the skull that grins beneath...