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Last Wednesday marked a strange assemblage of anniversaries: the 145th of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the 98th of the Titanic’s iceberg collision, and the 71st of John Steinbeck??s magnum opus, “Grapes of Wrath.” Among these decaying men and doomed machines stood Simone de Beauvoir, her death one year shy of its quarter-century mark. Although Lincoln gave us “four score and forty years,” the Titanic spawned an eponymous Hollywood blockbuster, and Steinbeck became the bane of freshman reading lists, Beauvoir?...
...live in that city. The characters and the settings of Silver’s novel are the ones that have been forgotten by modern literary America. We like to think of rural California the way Steinbeck painted it—majestic and a little wild. But we forget that Steinbeck??s stories were filled with loneliness. He first presented what Silver has rediscovered, a rural California that is dusty, deserted, and a little lost—just like its inhabitants. While Silver’s narrative is not particularly intriguing, her portrayal of life on the outskirts?...
...addition, Tsurumi is still sore about what he recalls as Bush’s slight to his cinematic taste. When he arranged for students to view the film of John Steinbeck??s The Grapes of Wrath during their study of the Great Depression, Tsurumi said, Bush derided the film as “corny...
...chair of the English department, awarded the $300 first-place prize to Maximillian M. Beach ’06, who recited two poems by Wallace Stevens. The $200 second place prize was captured by Meghan A. Day ’05 for her delivery of a piece from John Steinbeck??s novel, East of Eden...
...thriving den, and as many sub-themes and tunnels between themes as in the den itself. Undergirding this abundance is the book’s central Theme, that of (the) rabbit(s). It can fairly be said, with remarkable brashness and deceptively little initial qualification, that John Steinbeck??s Of Mice and Men is all about rabbits. Rabbits are more than just characters in the novel: they in some sense are the novel, and yet they exceed (run outside) it and are possessed by it all at once. To Steinbeck himself, in both life and literature, they were?...
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