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From:Verbatim (Vol. 31, Issue 4)If it were possible (which it isn't) to poll all the speakers of English as to their choice for the FUNNIEST word in the language, most words would probably get no votes at all (e.g., the, and, at, to ), while others...
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From: English JournalRay Bradbury happens to be one of America's major prose writers. Yet his works have been abysmally neglected by critics. In the "Introduction" to The Vintage Bradbury (Vintage Books, 1965), Gilbert Highet writes: "He...
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From: English Journal[In the following excerpt, Mengeling examines allusions to classical myth, particularly Greek mythology, in A Separate Peace.] There is an obvious pattern of Greek allusions in A Separate Peace. At one important point...
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From: English Journal[(essay date December 1969) In the following essay, Mengeling offers a critical reading of A Separate Peace, interpreting the novel as a modern Greek myth.] As Americans we have always been hotly concerned with growth...