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...author's preoccupation with the tensions between child and adult is most dramatically exposed in the vivid journal that Matty keeps and Golding shares with us. This journal allows the reader to climb inside of Matty's distressed head--and is equally the crowning stylistic accomplishment of Golding's narrative. Matty asks: "Can it be that what I am for is something to do with children?" Quickly we realize that Golding is up to his old tricks again, leading us through a labyrinth of original sin, passing characters stained with the blackness of humanity along...
...even surrounded by his beautiful family, will allow the women of America, and initially, the women of New Hampshire, to identify with him, and his home life. This exposure will break down the current cold barrier he projects to women. This warm visual image will be supported by strong reader copy that, point by point, will sell his qualifications to voters who can study the advertisementleisurely in their own home...
...thrillers take themselves seriously and their public lightly. In Who's on First the fables are turned. The author's vocabulary and wit show a high regard for his audience. It is William F. Buckley whom he takes humorously. And so, in the end, must the reader. -Peter Stoler
...there's no conflict of advertising policy, McCombs says. Television and newspapers are "two different media. It's apples and oranges." For one thing, she adds, if an advertisement appears in a newspaper such as the Post, the reader can "read the advertisement and contemplate it. On television, it all flies by too quickly." The television commercial "is not adequate form" for the presentation of complicated issues, McCombs says...
...life successfully balancing the two. The only daughter of Anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber, Ursula grew up in a lively intellectual home. Her three older brothers all became college professors, and her mother Theodora wrote nonfiction books, chiefly on the American Indian. The little girl turned into an avid reader and writer; her tastes in both ran to the exotic or bizarre. The first story she can remember completing told of a man who was eaten by elves. As her manuscripts began piling up, Le Guin pondered but put off resolving the question of whether she should turn her hobby into...