Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME PRESENT: neither can impinge on the solitude of Jed Tewksbury. Jed clings to his solitude and mourns it. Other characters are constantly telling him things like, "You don't know what you are, Jed Tewksbury." Jed's response is invariably an access of self-pity or an attempt to escape, through sex or work, into the "shadowy sanctuary of timelessness." Without a sense of geographical belonging--Jed has rejected his Southern roots--he lacks the resources for self-definition, and his cry of homelessness "I had no place to go. Not in the world." becomes a metaphysical lament...
Despite the Northeastern sweep in the distance event, the Harvard team turned in an impressive series of performances, including four meet record-breakers, in an attempt to stem the Huskie charge...
...also the locale of Langham's latest novel. Here, characters wrestling with their inadequacies starkly confront the twin problems of living and dying. Gielgud is himself dying--in the most undignified way imaginable, his colon having acquired a will of its own--as he composes the novel, his final attempt to resolve his tortured past. Struggling with mortality, he confronts at last his anguish over his wife's suicide, spending a sleepless night ordering his memories to achieve a form of aesthetic absolution...
...trying in advance to counter expected criticisms. "Some say that in my work style replaces feeling," he has one of his characters pronounce. "I say that style is feeling, and its most elegant, economical expression." Style is certainly Resnais's forte. The whole film is an elaborate, often stunning attempt to find cinematic metaphors for states of mind, to link color and narrative mode to psychological perceptions...
...Dubois Institute and the Committee on African Studies are sponsoring the conference, which its sponsors said will attempt to develop an African policy for the United States that will recognize that "access to the commodities of Africa is a matter of the highest importance...