Word: bleakness
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...philosophy also shows positive signs. He allows his publications a certain freedom--Alexander Cockburn, the media critic for Murdoch's Village Voice, often directs his jibes at Murdoch's Post. Moreover, perhaps due to Murdoch's concern with success, he does not level all his publications to the same bleak plain. If the New York Post often runs trash, then New York offers "classy trash"--to use writer Richard Reeve's description of the magazine's content. Yet Reeves offered that appraisal before Murdoch owned New York. And only a cursory examination of recent New York stories reveals that "classy...
...Harvard last year for an informal question and answer session, he was asked who were the coming talents in American fiction. Updike, a renowned stylist, rattled off the names of several others who seek truth in poised, extended prose. Then he paused: "Of course, there is the Bleak School...
Tyler pays delighted homage to the growing strength--both in numbers and in ability--of those who compress their thoughts into short, direct sentences that describe elliptical actions and liminal, often deeply saddening moments: in short, the Bleak School...
Furthermore, readers can come away with the encouraging feeling that these new bleak writers possess such audacity and conviction that we may have to find them a more encompassing--and cheerful--name. With Juck, we can put the timid shibboleth "Post Modernism" behind us at the same time: when authors like Carol Bly look to the future they invoke a visionary power that threatens to dilate into a new brand of fiction, one in which the characters as well as the audience are party to the author's hopes, secrets, and best-guesses. Though cantankerous, disheveled Svea dies early...
Things looked bleak for the netwomen early in the week, with number-two player Erika Smith still on crutches after two weeks with fluid on the knee, and Captain Debbie Kaufman having retired her crutches just last Thursday...