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...continual complaint in courses in the Humanities is that grading does not allow differences of opinion or interpretation--does not allow for the fact that truth in the humanities is plural. But in the sciences such a criticism is almost comically irrelevant. But it is also the singular character of scientific truth that lies behind what is widely referred to as a "science block...
...SINGULAR MAN, by J. P. Donleavy. Graves, ghosts and cryptic portents of the Gothic novel transposed in Joycean prose to contemporary Manhattan, funny even when deadly serious...
...SINGULAR MAN, by J. P. Donleavy. By capitalizing on his gift for fantasy and his necrophilic imagination, Donleavy (The Ginger Man) has written another wild and funny novel...
...STUNNED INTO PARALYSIS. WE CRY OUR OUTRAGE NOT FOR REVENGE BUT FOR THE MASSIVE LOSS OF THIS MAN, THE PRESIDENT. HE MADE ENORMOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO EVERY HUMAN BEING IN THE WORLD. HE WAS A SINGULAR LEADER OF OUR LIFETIME...
Like its original, the modern Gothic novel is prone to interest in tombs, graveyards, menacing strangers, cryptic portents, castles and ghosts. These are all present in A Singular Man, cleverly transposed into the idiom of contemporary Manhattan and ancillary Fairfield County. Smith has a great marble mausoleum under construction, air-conditioned, flood-and earthquake-proof. Smith moodily lurks there from time to time. The ghosts are of the contemporary autobiographical kind-Smith's own spectral guilty memories acquired in a posh Jesuit prep school. The furies are represented by the Press. Evil is represented by the abandoned power-bitch...