His novel You Know Me Al, written in the form of letters from a baseball player to a friend, is still extremely funny, while his theatrical parodies display a sardonic surrealism (a line from one of those short plays is still quoted in anthologies: “The curtain is lowered for seven days...
aIt makes the most telling difference whether a thinker has a personal relationship to his problems and finds in them his destiny,his distress,and his greatest happiness, or an impersonal one,meaning he is only able to touch them with the antennae of cold, curious thought. In the latter case...
aHot granny destiny ... 热的老婆婆命运…[translate] a在哪上班呢! Which in goes to work![translate]
While the recent upsurge of feminist activity in this country has indeed been a liberating one, its force has been chiefly emotional—personal, psychological and subjective—centered, like the other radical movements to which it is related, on the present and its immediate needs, rather than on ...