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I found myself resenting this implication, usually unspoken, that it was the fellowship-holders and professionals among us who were engaged in the serious business of becoming adults and we, the unoccupied, who were coursing back to the carefree days of youth. In our circumstances, it always seemed easier to...
If the many readers of The Ginger Man, James Patrick Donleavy's first and best novel, can somehow imagine its savagely baleful young anti-hero Sebastian Dangerfield being resurrected a quarter of a century afterward and sitting down to compose an advice book for late 20th century man, they...
In a magnificent tirade in Anthony Burgess's novel The Clockwork Testament or Enderby 's End, the poet Enderby rails at his dullard "creative writing" class: "All that's going to save your immortal soul, maaaaaan, if you have one, is words . . . Sooner or later you'...
To soften the blow, the Administration intends to drop its $2 per bbl. tariff on imported oil. Congress is almost sure to extend through next year $9.4 billion in tax cuts enacted for 1975, and the Administration will have little choice but to go along. Still deeper tax cuts might...
Bared Portions. Something other than nostalgia peddling is going on; these are good and compelling writers. But what, exactly, is their game? Why accept the strictures of Victorianism in an epoch of total license? One answer is social criticism posing as irony: actualities mutely placed against canting ideals. A second...