[etni] Fw: I don't "get" this phrase
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- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:58:18 +0200
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From: naomi epstein - naomiepstein@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: I don't "get" this phrase
I was reading an article about the late John Updike and came across the
following:
"he was a man of his times"
I don't get it.
Does that mean that he is outdated today or that his writing causes you to
understand the period he was writing about?
puzzled,
naomi epstein
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