Word: illusionless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after all, is one of those who made it: the son of a shoe-factory clerk who became a Cambridge don and a Parliamentary Secretary. Sir Charles Percy Snow. A baron! Snow's heroes are the deserving successes: the realists. How could it be otherwise? They are the illusionless men who sit in committee around conference tables and work out agreements that satisfy no one but at least keep the machinery turning...
...caustic, illusionless side of Miss Porter that pervades much of this collection of essays, reviews, asides and letters. Only a few well-made literary essays-on Thomas Hardy, Eudora Welty, Willa Gather-reflect morning freshness and intelligence at high noon...