Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that they’re not just hotter than the girl next door, they are the girl next door? Though Americans have been exposed to vampire lore for centuries in the form of Germanic, Slavic, and African myths, vampires did not really enter the American psyche in earnest until the Victorian Gothic Period in the mid-19th century. The sexual violence and racial miscegenation associated with vampires excited the fears and fetishes of Victorian audiences; the vampire’s bite is often depicted as a sexual kiss and embrace, and the victim’s demise as orgasmic ecstasy.The...
...drawn between writing and DNA early on in the book shape a theme emergent in many of Powers’ books, that of analogues to writing itself.What makes the book truly interesting resides in Powers’s ability to be formally experimental while remaining fully readable, and totally earnest. A strange, authorial “I” punctuates the book, deliberating the text’s future and reflecting on its past. “I know what kind of story I’d make from this one, if I could: the kind that, from one word...
...people go to manage costs during tough times was understandable and necessary. The efforts of those janitors remaining are admirable, and we encourage the union not to disparage both their efforts and those of the university as a whole by associating layoffs with decreased cleanliness. Harvard is making an earnest and thorough effort to keep students clean and healthy this fall, and, inevitably, much of the responsibility for the health of the College will fall to the students themselves...
...That Germany has achieved so much in such a relatively short period after reunification - stability, democracy, prosperity - paradoxically highlights its failings, the sections of society that have been excluded from the success story. Berlin has memorials everywhere, the earnest expression of modern Germany's desire to acknowledge its difficult history. Yet for every memorial, there's also a theme-park rendition of the past. At Potsdamer Platz you can have your picture taken with smiling "border guards" next to remounted Wall panels, decorated with faux graffiti on their eastern faces. "It's disgusting," says Knabe. "And it makes harmless something...
...series of impeccable translations by Chris Andrews from New Directions Press, his haunting first book, the crime novel “The Skating Rink,” in turns acknowledges the legend’s humble beginnings and prefigures the heights that he would eventually attain.His career began in earnest in the Mexico City of the early 70s, where he fashioned a small cabal of radical leftist poets called the “infrarealismo,” more memorable for their wild and futile gestures against the popular Latin and South American poets they detested than any of the poetry...