WRITERS & WRITING Growing Poisonous Flowers By Geoffrey Wolff There is a persistent question, never precisely answered: To what is art morally responsible? To truth, of course, but the artist...
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WRITERS^WRITING Shirley Jackson's 'Magic Style' By Geoffrey Wolff 4?l T HAS ALWAYS been a comfort to me to make | stories out of things that happen, things like moving, and kittens, and Christmas...
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WRITERS&WRITING Pornography and Social Value By Geoffrey Wolff Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. —from the First Amendment 'No, Ann, I really...
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WRITERS^WRITING 'Murder Your Darlings' By Geoffrey Wolff It is perhaps obvious that language is neutral until used. An ignorant man may unintentionally arrange words so that they say what he does...
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WRITERSfc^WRITING Corkscrew Prose By Geoffrey Wolff Lawrence Durrell's first novel since he completed The Alexandria Quartet in 1960 is jammed up with gimmicks. Tunc (E. P. Dutton, 359 pp.,...
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WRITERSfc^WRITING Sunrise in the West By Geoffrey Wolff That the sun shall rise and the rain cleanse and burial in the earth lend decency to our deaths—these are the co-ordinates by which we...
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Tragic Stalemate MODERN TRAGEDY By Raymond Williams Stanford. 208 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by GEOFFREY WOLFF Book Critic, "Washington Post" Tragedy, the critics have been telling us since...
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A Joyous Eden Regained A GENEROUS MAN By Reynolds Price Atheneum. 275 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by GEOFFREY WOLFF Book critic, Washington "Post"; lecturer, Maryland Institute of Art In his...
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