Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bloom's troubles begin with his characters. The protagonist is a human being named Perscors, whom we follow from earth to the planet Lucifer. Unfortunately, the hero has no personality to begin with, and picks up none along the way--Bloom just seems to forget to give him one. He rampages across Lucifer, a sword in each hand, splattering limbs and skulls across the countryside, but earns less sympathy from the reader than even such legendary softies as Conan the Barbarian...
Every great fantasy novel has its great crisis, whether a battle, a speech, or a quest fulfilled. When Perscors realizes the power his humanity has over all the abstractions on Lucifer--not a bad way in itself to work out the novel--he shouts "My epiphany is here!" So much for simple human dignity in Bloom's over-intellectualized wasteland...
Harvard finished its scoring in the ninth on a double by Chuck Marshall and a single by Peccerillo. Keyte finished off Tufts with a strong two-hit, two-walk four innings, displaying good poise and control. "That's the way Jimmy's been pitching most of the year," Nahigian said later...
...given a cautious endorsement to official University boycotts mandated by student referendum. A CHUL-Faculty Council committee report presented at last week's CHUL meeting argues that ideally students as individuals should boycott products, but that some products, such as sauce ingredients, are used by the University in a way that makes individual boycotts doomed to failure. If students show by ballot that they find use of some product to be morally repugnant, a boycott at an administrative level will take place, under CHUL's plan...
...earlier protagonists, usually human scientists studying alien civilizations, John is struggling to discover truths inherently too complex or mysterious to be understood. The utter failure of man's scientific explorations in past novels manifests the author's conviction that man cannot apprehend the universe in a meaningful, objective way...