The outsiders don't need to be unmuted so long as it means preserving the usefulness of a language that centers the experiences of the exceptions; and renders the outsiders as corrigible to exceptional narratives.
"It's really an exceptional piece of narrative for that period," says Robinson.
But he has an exceptional eye for narrative detail and an almost uncontrolled penchant for invention.
The historian quotes variant accounts, including one that attributed to Laozi an exceptional longevity; the narrative terminates with the genealogy of eight generations of Laozi's supposed descendants.
At this pivotal moment, Hodgson's book provides a useful, if sometimes repetitive, examination of what he calls America's "distorted and selective narrative of exceptional virtue".
The new rules also state that in "exceptional circumstances" for scripted narrative or scripted sketch shows, it maybe "essential for the on-screen talent to be given an executive producer credit".
W. E. B. Du Bois, in his 1903 essay "The Talented Tenth," wrote that "the Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men," and the traditional narrative of the battle for the rights of African-Americans has tended to read like a great-black-man theory of history.
FOR all the exceptional (and best-selling) disaster narratives since "Into Thin Air" and "The Perfect Storm," few have taken on the monumental American fires of the past, and none -- including Sebastian Junger's "Fire" -- has delivered the world of wild-land firefighting as successfully as Norman Maclean's unfinished "Young Men and Fire".
There is nothing that is exceptional about the Alldens – no suppressed narrative of violence, no simmering animosities.
