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Orwell's work needs no theoretical overlay mostly because he has an incredible eye for apt detail. He is convincing because he picks up on minor items that are perfect illustration of his points. The details may be improbable or commonplace, but are always appropriate. His approach is almost always tangential to his subject and his attitudes are implicit in what he writes. On occasion he publicly declared his bias, but even he relied mainly on apt illustration or pointed allusion to make his stance clear...
...Your comparison of Liv Ullmann and Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House was apt. Ibsen was one of the enlightened few of the 19th century who realized that women had problems requiring serious consideration from our conventional society. The saga of Liv Ullmann brings a live modern woman to speak her own piece from her own experience...
...adds up to what Ralph Turner, director of London's pacesetting Electrum Gallery, describes as "a renaissance. It's like a fresh new stream that is rushing to pour its heart out." An apt word, renaissance, for the New Jewelers are indeed going back to jewelry's birth, rediscovering and freely adapting ancient and traditional patterns, with a sense of excitement much like the Cubists' on their first encounter with primitive art. Traditional Oriental pieces, such as a high one-piece silver collar from Thailand that gives the illusion of being five separate circular necklaces heaped...
...senior faculty member. The statement I am bored," is a verdict on the self as well as on the other I suggests that there is nothing in the environment which might evoke one's intense attention, including the terms that consumerism can sometimes take among those who are apt to be its critics in the society at large. David Riesman '31 Henry Ford II Prof. of Social Sciences
...seeing them more quickly now than I did at first," says one of the newer Justices. Matters that are purely local in nature, affecting only a few people and without any serious question of federal or constitutional law, are automatic toss-outs. Isolated cases of injustices are apt to be ignored too. "We've got to consider the importance of the point of the decision to the administration of justice," observes one of the judges. "If it's something that won't reoccur for 100 years or so, we'll probably pass it up." To some...