Word: unrealities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Articles by students about student revolts have a habit of beginning with an example of bourgeois society the student encountered en route to his student revolt. It represents a pithy bit of Daily Life which contrasts effectively with the stark unreal purity of the particular, and general, student revolt. This Universal Encounter may lose its validity as a literary device through repetition, but it remains a significant personal experience for the student...
...that this is not due to the author's lack of craftsmanship, but rather that it represents a deliberate attempt to show the dreary interchangeability of the adulterers.) The novel is seen largely through Piet's intelligence and sensibilities. Most of the other male characters are unreal, merely equipped with identifying jobs and stigmata. Updike paints Foxy and Angela full-length and achieves an equal effect in far fewer brush strokes with Marcia and Janet, two of the husband swappers. The trouble is that with some minor differences, he seems to have used the same woman as model...
...hick reporter could come to the big city and give the blase natives the last thing one would have expected from him: a successful, sophisticated magazine. It was not, Ross proclaimed, "for the old lady in Dubuque"; it wasn't even for Ross's own mother. Her unreal ized ambition for him was to see something under his byline in the Saturday Evening Post. He was shy, so much so that he had a hard time rustling funds to start The New Yorker. Though he dealt with the best humorists of his time, he was no phrasemaker. This...
...onslaught. Encircling the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh and massed around Saigon and other cities, enemy forces seemed to be missing opportunities to strike a second blow while the country was still struggling to recover from the initial attacks. As the days slipped by, the waiting created an unreal aura of suspense. Then last week the Communists hit again with a synchronized series of widespread mortar and rocket attacks. But, without strong supporting infantry assaults by week's end, their latest move did not seem to amount to the fullscale second wave...
Cosmopolitan is frequently criticized for portraying as unreal a sex-charged world as Playboy, if a somewhat less affluent one. As in Playboy, children are not pictured; they interfere with the free, untrammeled sex life. "I'm a materialist," says Editor Brown, "and it's a materialistic world. Nobody is keeping a woman from doing everything she wants to do but herself." Certainly not Helen Gurley Brown...