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...sure, general," said Lieut. Colonel George Bicknell, "but I just saw two battleships sunk...
...showed that the college's literature department had "deviated from proper recruitment procedures" in giving him the boot. Nonetheless, there is a chilling effect. "Essayists have always been unpopular because they think for themselves," Hoagland told the Boston Globe. "I don't think the gravity of this issue has sunk in. Nationwide and at Bennington, I don't think the lesson's been learned...
...Uncle Milty was off the mark. The trick, I think, involves an expectation game. When spirits have sunk to an all-time low, they can only rise...
...case of posthurricane depression? A literal-minded reader could argue that. But Humphreys puts the ill wind to figurative and far better uses. A white piano partially sunk in the marsh, a detached spiral staircase coiled against the horizon suggest fresh ways of seeing...
...Kundera is an author, and the book he is writing turns out to be the very one that readers of Immortality will hold in their hands. What the world scarcely needs at this moment is more self-referential fiction. The postmodernist point that art is, um, artificial has probably sunk in by now and does not require further demonstrations...