Word: conditioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The fault, like the virtue, is the author's. He writes powerful interludes, only to vandalize them by reducing his characters to prototypes. By midnovel, Fabian is shown to be, in his creator's phrase, "a portable man," at home everywhere and nowhere. Like other Kosinski men, he...
When teaching a new skill in practice, MacAusland gradually applies pressure (e.g. putting time limits on play or by cutting down the practice area) until players can execute the maneuver under a strongly competitive condition.
There is no self-pity. His mind is hard yet, filled with the dangers and failings he perceives in the human condition, his own not excluded. He plays it as it lays. Curiously, his broad view contains a core of coherent national optimism that deepens irony. Hope and guidance from...
Players in the game can pile up examples but still have difficulty arriving at any generality. Decadence, in one working definition, is pathology with social implications: it differs from individual sickness as pneumonia differs from plague. A decadent act must, it seems, possess meaning that transcends itself and spreads like...
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead the children into the sea. The naked woman on the ledge outside the window on the sixteenth floor is a victim of accidie, or the naked woman is...