Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long critical essay. The position Wolfe takes in The New Journalism is a clear extension of his earlier work. Wolfe in the sixties was frenetically active, innovative and controversial. Using intense research and attention to detail, a structure similar to that of short stories, and a breathless writing style he wrote about what he liked to call "the status revolution," the confusion...
Wolfe was most often criticized for his break neck style and for playing fast and loose with the facts. Dwight Mac Donald called him a "parajournalist." But none of it seemed to be getting to Wolfe, who kept on churning it out, kept getting more outrageous, didn't seem to care...
...Eric Blair" suits him. The crisp syllables suggest a Briton of spare style and countenance. But he despised his real name; it smacked, somehow, of Aryanism and privilege. So he cloaked his origins in a common-sounding nom de plume. His disguise became him, and at last he became his disguise. Today the world remembers him only as George Orwell, seer of the future imperfect. Neither name nor reputation is quite correct...
...gave me a sufficient pretext for shooting the elephant. I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool." That is more than the bottom line of a 1936 article; it is the epitaph of the British imperial style...
They are selling decadence short in this musical, but they are very bullish on silliness. The Rocky Horror Show is a mindless spoof of old horror movies performed to the accompaniment of a rock score in the style...