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- ...ligent men with a marvelous sense of balance in their estimate of changing events under high pressure is an idea so painful, that it doesn’t even get whisp13 KB (2,472 words) - 08:32, 7 February 2019
- The inaugural events of the first weeks of the Colony included [[Robert Begiebing]]’s workshop13 KB (2,157 words) - 09:09, 2 July 2021
- ...phy of primary and secondary texts; the “days” is a chronicle of the major events of Mailer’s life. Mike gives more details in [[Norman Mailer: Works and D14 KB (2,318 words) - 10:02, 26 June 2021
- ...night he was wonderful in bed.”{{sfn|Mills|1982|page=271}} The intervening events, in life unrecorded by any witness, are quite dramatic in the fictional sce15 KB (2,376 words) - 09:32, 11 October 2020
- ...d as ''[[The Presidential Papers]]''. In this series of meditations on the events of the Kennedy administration, Mailer voices again and again his hope that16 KB (2,713 words) - 20:27, 7 March 2019
- ...genuously or even seductively warning readers not to make too much of such events!—presents several scenes in which hives are gassed or burned. Readers mig ...er’s humor is both on the mark and a bit to one side of the main stream of events. Mailer does not pretend to be in the ethical center, and the rude, cruel,32 KB (5,153 words) - 09:41, 8 July 2021
- ...of Mailer’s career, examined in the context of the cultural and historical events that sparked his imagination. With this pictorial essay excerpted from the14 KB (2,291 words) - 08:41, 8 July 2021
- This happened forty years ago. The events on the last day of shooting, I always thought, were personal and should sta18 KB (3,299 words) - 10:17, 27 May 2021
- ...rience at the hospital made an enormous impression upon him, as subsequent events would reveal, but for the moment he had little time to think about it. He m16 KB (2,813 words) - 16:00, 13 July 2021
- ...sion of Reed’s “history,” or social content. (That is, I focus on the core events of tales like Shane’s, not the tales’ uses of the likes of homesteading ...ly, the dynamics of the genre are constituted by the following sequence of events: hero enters social group; hero is unknown to group; hero has exceptional a50 KB (7,933 words) - 15:42, 7 July 2021
- ...manse” where he lives, D.J. broadcasts in the crystal set of his mind the events which have led him to this pass. That history is, primarily, the story of a19 KB (3,236 words) - 16:51, 16 May 2019
- ...n administrators, “move in the larger world and believe they can influence events.” The contrast, she says, gives the book its immutable form, a symphony i41 KB (7,274 words) - 07:54, 6 July 2020
- ...il from one bigbox retailer in particular expressing grief over the tragic events while taking the opportunity to remind its customers of an upcoming fall sa ...like Cairo’s Tahrir Square where, earlier this year, we witnessed historic events, in real time, and met people literally changing the world. And there will33 KB (5,223 words) - 10:18, 11 October 2020
- ...ghout his close critical study of Mailer’s work: that the major historical events and the various vernaculars of America have provided the novelist with his19 KB (3,096 words) - 08:38, 26 June 2021
- ...ler’s dialogue with his age can be gauged not simply in relation to public events like the Vietnam War, the 1967 protest march on the Pentagon, the moon shot ...rns himself into a personage, propelling himself into the center of public events in which he played only a peripheral role. The third person may have sounde37 KB (6,301 words) - 08:33, 8 July 2021
- ...el, ''The Castle in the Forest'' (2007), focusing on Hitler and the tragic events that would lead to World War II, is very different from Eliot’s ''Four Qu ...t for many as the twenty-first century began in the light of the traumatic events in Manhattan and elsewhere of September 11, 2001.{{efn|Shortly after 9/11,51 KB (8,331 words) - 09:53, 23 June 2021
- ...for ''Harper’s'' magazine as well as his nonfiction account of convention events in ''Miami and the Siege of Chicago''.32 KB (4,576 words) - 08:52, 25 July 2021
- ...re had attempted to communicate through his thesis of anguish, because the events which befall his characters are no longer random and meaningless; every mom ...ulnerability of God to the predations of the Devil. The random sequence of events that constitutes the narrative plot of the novel is transformed through Roj42 KB (6,766 words) - 08:59, 4 July 2021
- ...use of the third person to describe himself as narrator/participant in the events discussed. The other salient characteristic of this period was the prevalen19 KB (3,254 words) - 07:40, 6 July 2020
- ...Deborah’s diversionary defenestration and subsequently tell his version of events to the police with conviction if not complete credibility. At a certain poi ...ogical realism in its description of St. Petersburg, is based on fictional events.106 KB (17,809 words) - 08:58, 5 November 2021