Word: unsent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novelist (his 1976 The History Man may be the funniest English academic novel this side of Lucky Jim), Bradbury is also a hard-working critic, a professor of American studies at the University of East Anglia and, at 55, a man disinclined to suppress the cholers of middle age. Unsent Letters consists of 18 imaginary, therefore utterly forthright, responses to his junk mail...
...Unsent Letters is not so much an escape from reality as a transformation of it. Underneath the jokes lie a good deal of authentic, entertaining autobiography and many shrewd observations of the current literary and academic scenes. Readers not preoccupied with literary correspondence of their own will find it instructive as well as hilarious -- and perhaps even cautionary...
...found ingratiating himself with the literary Left both time-consuming and exasperating." Typically, he did not capture a moment in an effort to reform it, but rather in an effort to remember it. Function lagged far behind form, got lost somewhere in the piles of unpublished manuscripts and unsent letters...
...deputy project scientist. "What has remained unseen to this point is going to turn out even better." For as it swung past Uranus, Voyager took thousands of pictures and gathered reams of scientific data, accumulating information faster than its systems could process and transmit it toward the earth. The unsent information, stored on magnetic tape, was to be gradually beamed to J.P.L. over the next several days. In these transmissions, scientists expected to find, among other things, images of more tiny moons...
...lashings suggested. Another review by Critic Hume annoyed the President, and he complained in writing to Post Publisher Philip Graham: "Why don't you fire this frustrated old fart and hire a music reviewer who knows what he's talking about?" This time, though, the letter went unsent...