Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past story collections-fragmented, humming with vaguely malevolent absurdities. This book's innocent pleasures stem from seeing how far the author can jump. The Consumer Bulletin Annual, for instance, hardly seems a bouncy platform for whimsy. Yet Barthelme somersaults from it into the tale of a hapless soul whose purchases consistently turn out to be substandard. "Consider the case of the bedside clock. 'Check for loudness of tick,' the Annual said. I checked. It ticked. Tick seemed decorous. Once installed in home, it boomed like...
...count on the music being very good. How can any group be expected to produce exciting music that really reflects the inner struggles of people obsessed with their pre-med courses? How can you rock and roll to the beat of a Quaalude downer? Where is the boogie-woogie soul of working for change within the Democratic Party? To produce anything other than zombie music for today's youth market would only be interpreted as an act of quaint nostalgia...
...sell your soul in your campaign, what is your price in government...
Harvard's actual 3-1-1 record should be kept a secret. Don't let on to a soul that Coach George Ford's young team has really won more than it has lost. If you should blurt it out to someone who watched the squad struggle through last season, you most likely will draw a few comments like, "That's a good one." But what if he should actually go and check a game out. The secret would be blown...
...even remember that his visitor Squatriglia owes him a favor. But this conception of fragmented personality does not grip Chee Chee as the great and terrible existential dilemma that it may seem. We should become suspicious of this when we realize that here he opens his soul to a stranger, one who is bewildered by his philosophical speculation...