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Wranglers and Stranglers
Years ago there was a group of brilliant young men at the University of Wisconsin,who seemed to have amazing creative __1__ talent.They were wouldbe poets,novelists,and essayists.They were extraordinary in their __2__ to put the English language to its best use.These promising young men __3__ regularly to read and critique (评论) each other's work.And critique it they did!
These men were merciless with one another.They __4__ the minutest literary expression into a hundred pieces.They were heartless,tough,even mean in their __5__.The sessions became such areas of literary criticism that the __6__ of this special club called themselves the “Stranglers (扼杀者)”.
In order to __7__,the women of literary talent in the university __8__ to start a club of their own,one comparable to the Stranglers.They __9__ themselves the “Wranglers (争论者)”.They,too,read their __10__ one another.But there was one great difference.The criticism was much softer,more __11__,more encouraging.Sometimes,there was almost no criticism at all.Every effort,even the weakest one,was __12__.
Twenty years later an alumnus of the university was making an exhaustive __13__ of his classmates' careers when he __14__ a vast difference in the literary accomplishments of the Stranglers as opposed to the Wranglers.Of all the __15__ young men in the Stranglers,no one had made a significant literary __16__ of any kind.From the Wranglers had come six or more successful __17__,some of national renown such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,who wrote The Yearling.
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