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Pemagon Papers (Gravel Edition), Boston, Beacon Press, 1972. (Four volumes plus critical index and essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, et...
SUNDAY: Casablanca. 1942. My favorite Bogey and one of my all-time favorite films. Romance and intrigue in wartime Morocco with Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Heinreid, Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet, et al. CH.56...
...there is a similar book on Beckett that contains an elaborate chart of the "genealogy" of Beckett's work. The aim is to show how unified the whole oeuvre is in a movement towards its own final extinction. Molloy is a descendent of Watt, and a cousin to Mercier et Camier; Godot is grandfather to Lessness. Alvarez's book is written at a time and from a critical viewpoint that successfully demonstrate this Beckettian family of worlds in generation, and gives a sense of its underlying rhythms. For Beckett, the search for less--and finally for nothing--is the search...
...years it has been the preoccupation of French novelists of the nouveau roman-Alain Robbe-Grillet, Mark Saporta, et al.73151;to build their fictions exclusively from facts, objects, appearances, surfaces and the impressions of the moment. Even when the method works, the result is long-winded; but it can have the illusionist beauty of pointillism that only makes sense as the onlooker steps back...
...fire truck doesn't slow when traditions or institutions get in the road ahead. Take Harvard and a question about its contributions to U.S. government--the Kissingers, the Bundys, the Richardsons, et...