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Page 12
... Richard Poirier , " The techniques that emerge . get to be more interesting than do the characters themselves . Characters become the passive receptors of phenomena from outside ; they become all ears , listening to the sounds of voices ...
... Richard Poirier , " The techniques that emerge . get to be more interesting than do the characters themselves . Characters become the passive receptors of phenomena from outside ; they become all ears , listening to the sounds of voices ...
Page 112
... Richard Nixon , the political figure who had been at the center of American life for the entire period discussed by Bell , 1946-62 . Sloan was drawn by several problems with regard to Nixon ; he defined his subject as " Nixon and the ...
... Richard Nixon , the political figure who had been at the center of American life for the entire period discussed by Bell , 1946-62 . Sloan was drawn by several problems with regard to Nixon ; he defined his subject as " Nixon and the ...
Page 177
... Richard Wright's nonfiction works , continuing to satisfy general ex- pectations that black writers should write of their own social , politi- cal , and ethnic reality — in conventionally realistic terms . Most of the truly contemporary ...
... Richard Wright's nonfiction works , continuing to satisfy general ex- pectations that black writers should write of their own social , politi- cal , and ethnic reality — in conventionally realistic terms . Most of the truly contemporary ...
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