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SOME naturalistic novels you read like you would your Freud or Marx, to grasp some wide-scale analysis of human experience to use to change your life. Others you might read solely for their expressive vision of a stratum of common experience, which might encompass ideology enroute, but is mainly concerned with the stink and feel of actions and their settings...
...love." He envisions that ultimately. "After I am finished with myself, an observer who could read my thoughts and watch my actions would never believe that I was raised in the United States, and much less would he believe that I came from the lowest class, the black stratum of the slave mentality...
...Yale Corporation is a homogeneous, self-perpetuating body based on class privilege and drawn from "a narrow stratum of society," reported the Yale University Study Commission on Governance recently...
...Wilson, Dickens' determination to write sprang from a fear of sinking back into oblivion and poverty. His disenchantment with his parents primed him for his eventual satire of the feckless, posturing stratum of society that they epitomized. Father, an expansive but hopelessly improvident clerk, was to balloon into fiction as Mr. Micawber. Mother, with her snobbish faith in "connections" (one of whom was the manager of the blacking factory), would become not only Mrs. Micawber but later Mrs. Nickleby. "Peculiarly unfair" treatment for mother, Wilson concludes, but there was a special reason for that...
Most After Bonnie's -ups have been scored right in Washington. After Richard Nixon rallied me upper stratum of his Administration in the Cabinet Room of the White House to hear his upbeat post-mortem on the mid term exclusive Bonnie managed to ferret out the details for an exclusive story in our Nov. 16 issue...