Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compared the literature they hold in high esteem with "the stuff you read in The New Yorker." He said the prevailing literary opinion is "tradition bound," concerned more with content and theme than style, technique, and innovative ways of telling the story...
...fantasies of what might have been, and his tears, the tears of relief and disbelief and gratitude will have dried. His thoughts must be on the future, and his conscience must be preoccupied with the awful, beautiful knowledge that from this moment hence, his every step will be the stuff of future history. All of these things may be surmised, and yet an outsider's comprehension must still be far from complete...
...because he's unfriendly," an underling assured them. "It's because we've already put chemicals on the field, and nobody's allowed out there. If you spread the stuff around with your shoes, it could clump up and kill the grass where we don't want it to." The laborer looked up at the centerfield clock--which runs all winter--polished off his soft drink, and excused himself; his break was over...
...common reader, Beckett is really not linguistically obscure. His care in translation demonstrates his commitment to ordinary, idiomatic language, both English and French. His own work clearly departs from the ideals of Joyce, whose Finnegan's Wake he so strongly praises: "You complain that this stuff is not written in English. It is not written at all. It is not to be read--or rather it is not only to be read...His writing is not about something; it is that something itself." Both artists create this inseparable unity of form and content, but Beckett, unlike Joyce, does not orchestrate...
Brown comes to Harvard today strutting much the same stuff that made the team a contender last year. A tough defense, a solid quarterback and a talented wide receiver have brought the Bruins a 5-1 record thus far and a chance to make up for last season's breakdown...