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Word: within (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Within a month of Lost in the Funhouse's appearance came Nakobov's Congeries, a collection of stories, poems, fragments of novels, and critical essays...

Author: By John Plotz, | Title: Barth and Nabokov: Come to the Funhouse, Lolita | 11/18/1968 | See Source »

...amusing, and, unlike the other stories, is about love, however abstractly that compact may be presented. There is, though, a basic flaw in the piece: In fantastic literature, the author is allowed to make any conditions he likes, but once these are established, the action must be within their limits. The reader will allow Barth to allow a spermatazoa to meditate, but he cannot allow that spermatazoa to record theories about his purpose (correct in every detail)--which theories no spermatazoa could ever have conceived...

Author: By John Plotz, | Title: Barth and Nabokov: Come to the Funhouse, Lolita | 11/18/1968 | See Source »

When he was drinking, O'Neill dreamed of living on a dark estate enclosed by a great fence with barred and guarded gates. Within, he would enjoy all the prerequisites of comfort and happiness, including, as Agnes Boulton reported it, unlimited power "over ideas; over things; over people." He came nearest to this role of father-mother deity in his writing, which he once referred to rather chillingly as "my vacation from living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Will to be Great | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break--One of W. C. Fields' best, with Margaret Dumont and a wild movie-within-the-movie. At SYMPHONY II, 262 Huntington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Revising titles was the Dunlop Report's main short-term recommendation, but the recommendations go much further, and already Tuesday the Faculty was getting started on the big questions--like the distribution of work and authority within the Faculty and the speed and direction of its growth...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Dunlop's Iceberg | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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