1) Acclaimed American book 2) Acclaimed American tale 3) Acclaimed American novel 4) American book 5) American tale 6) American novel 7) Applauded American tale 8) Applauded American book 9) Applauded American novel 10) Book by American author 11) Book by an American author 12) Book by an American writer
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(from the article `American literature`) ...profoundly shaken by the bombing of Hiroshima and the real threat of human annihilation, found the conventions of realism inadequate for treating ... American writer whose novel Catch-22 (1961) was one of the most significant works of protest literature to appear after World War II. The satiri...
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(from the article `Nichols, Mike`) ...followed by The Graduate (1967), a landmark film about the conflicts of the generation of the 1960s for which he received an Academy Award for ...
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A situation in which a person is frustrated by a paradoxical rule or set of circumstances that preclude any attempt to escape from them. The name comes from the novel by Joseph Heller (1923-1999), based on his personal experiences, about an American airman's attempts to survive the madness of the Se...
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Black-humour novel by Joseph
Heller, published in 1961, about a US squadron that is ordered to fly an increased number of bombing missions in Italy in World War II; the crazed military...
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Much misused expression, it refers properly only to a problem whose solution is inherently self-defeating. Wrongly it is used to describe any insurmountable or difficult problem. It's from Joseph Heller's book of the same name; see cliches origins
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Type: Term Synonyms: DiGeorge syndrome
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