Word: smorgasbord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honorable alternatives to being realistic." Updike is echoed by fellow novelist John Barth, whom Wolfe calls "the peerless leader" of the retreat from realism for his "neo- fabulist" style. Barth says Wolfe's manifesto "is much too narrow a view. I see the feast of literature as truly a smorgasbord. I wouldn't want a world in which there were only Balzac and Zola and not Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka. The idea that because we live in a large and varied country we therefore ought to write the sweeping, panoramic novel is like arguing that our poets all ought...
...smorgasbord of sight and sound that is 1000 Airplanes on the Roof will leave your senses reeling; your psyche will stagger about, striving to bring sanity to bear against a sensual overload, trying to assimilate the hyper-real unreality of the wondrous ravings of a lunatic. As the house lights return you to the world of the mundane, you will struggle to breathe and to re-learn the ability to function without music and light pushing you, oppressing you, uplifting...
...kind of a smorgasbord politics," recalls Charles E. Allen, Jr. '70, who worked in city housing projects for PBHA. "There were very few people who had any kind of coherent world view...
...view is hardly the ultimate in TV technology, but it may be an idea whose time has finally come. Conventional pay-cable channels, like HBO and Showtime, offer viewers a smorgasbord of programming for one monthly fee. Pay- per-view instead gives viewers a chance to select from a menu, paying only for the programs they want to see. Prices typically range from $4 or $5 for recent movies to $15 or $20 for concerts and sport events. Pay-per-view is still a pint-size player in the TV marketplace: only 11 million TV homes (out of 90.4 million...
...departmental offerings did count for the Core, students could feast at a smorgasbord of courses instead of grinding by on the thin gruel of Core selections. After dealing with brackets, fall/spring course distinctions and scheduling conflicts, the current Core menu becomes very weak indeed...