Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon after his arrival in the U.S. in 1964 after a career as an Australian cartoonist, Oliphant got the hang of U.S. politics and effectively ribbed the presidential candidates of that year for the Post. Today he appears in 130 other papers. Ironically, he won a 1967 Pulitzer Prize for...
Hypocritical leftists aren't the only ones ridiculed. The film's most honest character, a 17-year-old, spouts Maoisms while being seduced. The film centers around Vittorio (beautifully played by Glattco Mauri), a rich bourgeois who out of vanity accepts the Socialist nomination for a local office. They want...
One love affair is allowed momentarily to flourish in the marshes of Tarbox, and its individuality is contrasted to the interchangeable lust of the others. This is Piet's love for Foxy Whitman, a lady for whom the author too seems to have had some love, for he has made...
In the end I am left with the impression that most human feelings are absent in Tarbox. Though Piet has a momentary infusion of paternal love, it seems like no more than a nod to that feeling on the part of the author, a reflex in his own character. Piet...
But the actual life of the book seems to me not in its thesis about the withdrawal of God, but in its repulsive vision of the absence of love and grace from human relations. Unfortunately the thesis seems to crush the book's main character, to drain the life from...