Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hoagland's style is consonant with the idea that the essay is a variety of "conversational writing." Unshackled, Hoagland converses recklessly, wildly, an abundance of critical detail and blinding enthusiasm fueling his abrupt transitions from present to past, subject to self, city to countryside. As Hoagland charges about from topic to reflection to stylistic glissando, we find, as observed critic Geoffrey Wolff, that "it is impossible to know (but easy to feel) what the essay is 'about.'" Hoagland, ablaze in a trail of Pickwickian serendipity, is the sympathetic purveyor of black bears, red wolves, and city rats; he records...
Other sources, however, warned that the issue was far too controversial; when the topic reaches the Faculty for debate, they predicted, more than just a few eyebrows would be raised...
Other Sources, however, warned that the issue was far too controversial; when the topic reaches the Faculty for debate, they predicted, more than just a few eyebrows would be raised...
Bland wears a bright blue fishing hat with the brim rolled up all the way around. He carries a Daily News under his arm and smiles broadly as he lectures on the topic...
...favorite topic of conversation among Anglos in Miami revolves around whether the government should print driver's license tests, ballots, and even U.S. citizenship tests in both English and Spanish. Jewish residents, who had been among the most forward in welcoming the Cubans in 1961, point out with an edge in their voices that nobody printed the ballots in Yiddish for their ancestors when they came to America. The Jews in South Florida cast about 20 per cent of the area's votes, and there is widespread hostility toward the Cubans from this powerful group. That especially startles the Latins...