Word: affectionate
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Of all modern poets, Ezra Pound, who died at 87 in Venice last week, caught the heavenly benefactors in the most contrary of moods. Few literary figures in history have stirred such admiration, affection and gratitude among fellow artists. But none has aroused such hatred. In art, Pound's...
Millar, a former producer (Little Big Man, Paper Lion) who is directing for the first time, has a good eye for the landscape of the Southwest and a talent for conveying a sense of rootlessness and change. Where Legends works less well is in the concept of the character Red...
She associates the deterioration in appearance of college students with a general decay of manners and morality among the young people she sees on the streets and hears about from other adults. When she came to dinner at Radcliffe once last year, she objected to the public displays of affection...
Like his settings, his characters' movements and gestures appear stylized to Western eyes, for they move with the grace and ceremonial formality of traditional Japanese etiquette. No one says hello or bids good-bye, pays a compliment or enters a room, without bowing politely to show respect, or even deep...
The children all express great affection for their father as a man, and an unshakable confidence in his invincibility as a politician-they have no doubt that he will win in November. But they enjoy his human fallibilities as well. George, they say, has a "corny sense of humor" that...