Philip Bestrom I would hope that writers everywhere are sensitive to trends in their own culture.
What was your reaction to [the Swedish Academy member] Horace Engdahl's comments that American writers are "too isolated, too insular" and "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture"?
"Europe is still the center of the literary world," he said, not the United States, and he suggested that American writers were "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture".
Last month, Mr. Engdahl provoked a wave of indignation when he criticized American writers as "too isolated, too insular" and "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture".
Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Horace Engdahl told the Associated Press that US writers were "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture", which he said dragged down the quality of their work.
It's a shame the National Book awards weren't announced the day after Horace Engdahl, secretary of the Swedish Academy which decides the Nobel prize, proclaimed American novelists too sensitive to "trends in their own mass culture" to participate in the big dialogue of literature.
Both are incredibly agile and sensitive to trends and consumer demand – who knows what products the thousands of hoverboard shops were doing a year before?
The principle limitation of EARSS data is that by the nature of blood stream infection it tends to focus on those hospitalised with serious illness and therefore is not sensitive to trends in the community.
"In upgrading and developing many of its buildings, Reckson became more sensitive to the trend and they have some fine works in their buildings," he said.
Some preliminary results showed that this model was still too sensitive to the trend, i.e. to the average value of x i, j across the dataset (data not shown).
