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...commands that would be heard and obeyed. So I yelled, and the change came faster than I thought it would." Having forcefully made clear his intentions and goals, Watt says that he can settle down to manage the department: "Now I can change my style, my rhetoric and my mode of operation. I'm mellower...
...States (as his subsequent relegation to the boys books bin in local libraries will attest). But in Europe Poe's reputation was up there with the best, and fifty years later, his stories would influence another European, Arthur Conan Doyle, as he tried his hand in the amateur detective mode. When, in 1887, A Study in Scarlet introduced Sherlock Holmes, a whole new era in detective fiction began, one that was both ingenious and literate--a kind of highbrow distraction for the well-educated who didn't necessarily want to delve into Byron...
...some way he seems such a modern artist. There is, to begin with, the relentless autophagy: the cannibalizing, part by part, of his own images in numerous variations, a self-reflexive mode of invention that one associates more with Picasso than anyone earlier. This point is brought home dramatically by the gallery of motifs from The Gates of Hell, from The Thinker itself (originally meant to be the central figure over the doorway, a Dante dreaming the whole Inferno) to the battalion of flying, crouching, writhing figures, bare forked animals all, that crowd the plinths...
...mistaken impression--a certain cooling of Bond's ardour for romantic digression. This may be a concession to Moore's advancing years, though he may come back robustly in Octupussy. With the Reagan era upon the world, Bond may soon return to the damsel-in-distress mode...
...week later everything fell into place. One thesis a la mode. The thin Lowell House resident had conquered centrifuges, petridishes, SDS protein separation gels, and some bad breaks to close a thoroughly successful undergraduate career in basic biological research...