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...certainly true of the sensational "Scarsdale letter" of Jean Harris to Dr. Herman Tarnower. That letter, with its confluent currents of rhetorical cunning, heartbreak and hysteria, is a remarkable work of art. One cannot imagine Mrs. Harris dashing off a note that read: "Dear Hi. Miss you. Jean." Yet one can too easily see Tarnower writing back: "Dear Jean. Good to hear from you. Hi"-the absence of things in certain letters being more devastating than their presence in others. Nothing says more than a light, frisky note to a friend in despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Don't Write Any Letters | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...short whimsical account of the progress of waste from Claverly Hall down to the Charles River. At one point he described the meeting of this waste with run-off from the bakery rooms of the University kitchens and said it would be impossible for the two to be confluent. When asked why, he replied, "Because yeast is yeast and waste is waste and never the twain shall meet." Like so many master plumbers at Harvard he was teaching a great deal more than the immediate matter at hand...

Author: By Andrew T. Weil, | Title: The Age of the Plumber | 3/5/1964 | See Source »

Part One of the three confluent but contrasting parts of L'Avventura (The Adventure) is set on one of the Aeolian Isles, crests of a vast sunken crater in the Mediterranean. By placing his characters in this dead volcano. Antonioni clearly intends to suggest that they are spiritually extinct. The walking dead are idle-rich Italians, members of a yachting party, who lie sunning like lizards on the lava shelves. Anna (Lea Massari), the vivid brunette, is a restless little disperata who finds her life empty and is sick of filling it with sex. Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), Anna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Sickness Unto Death | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...Cabinet Is Dead. After liberation, Burma's course towards freedom ran swiftly in two confluent streams: the Thakins whipped up anti-British strikes against the returning colonial diehards; in London, the British nation was undergoing its historic change of heart. In 1946 Britain offered Burma self-government "either within or without the British Commonwealth." Burma's stars at last seemed favorable: 31-year-old General Aung San, commander of the Burmese Defense army, agreed to lead the Cabinet; 39-year-old U Nu, anxious to return to his writing, became Speaker of Burma's brand-new Constituent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: The House on Stilts | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

Blake's power reaches its greatest height when he paints violent confluent; and the eternal struggle of good and evil, the major theme of both works, provides him with a wonderful opportunity for an objectification of his most intense mystical passions. The idea of a series of paintings allows Blake to produce a sort of drama with his brush, a drama whose conflict ends in a religious purgation of evil. The resolution is also joyous and lively, for in the last of the Job series the harps and horns are taken down from the trees, and the books are thrown...

Author: By N. S. P., | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/17/1947 | See Source »

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