Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guest's novel is not perfect by any means. It lacks the polish and tightness of more experienced writers. Her style is pedestrian--at times downright clumsy--perhaps a little too ordinary to be interesting. At points minor characters go flat, the tone varies confusingly, and it becomes hard to determine who's speaking...
...fundamental triviality of Gray's feminism is unhappily reflected in her style, which might charitably be called uneven; that is, it goes from bad to worse. Gray is by turns breathy and didactic. The effect of an occasional lovely image is immediately obliterated by platitudes. The light in northern France is like "the gleam on a pear," but Gray can't just leave it at that: "all seems spun in webs of fragile silver," and on and on. Lovers and Tyrants is relentlessly overwritten; Gray leaves no noun unmodified in her search to recapture the past. She never settles...
...couple of years this fall's World Series will be remembered as the Popsicle Classic, as the cold Walrus-type weather and the even colder businesslike style of the Cincinnati Reds characterized the first four game sweep of the fall classic since the Baltimore Orioles Sandy Koufax into a Jewish joke...
...chapels are lovely. They were built in the Byzantine style, with barrel-vaulted naves and horseshoe-arched apses. Unencumbered by the structural requirements of free-standing buildings, the Cappadocian builders developed some unique architectural features, such as unusually broad naves, in their little churches. Some chapels also contain such non-Byzantine elements as conical roofs--typical of Armenian architecture--instead of the more conventional hemispheres...
...knowledge can be introduced to the voluminous and rapidly growing literature, while those who are ready for advanced work can do that (3) that different courses must be taught by people with different outlooks on feminism and on what should be included in Women's Studies, so that the style of learning and teaching can evolve along with the content. The possibilities in this area are exciting, as they are in any new field that is defining itself. This university must foster and encourage such explorations and not try to brand every innovation illegitimate...