Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While these letters are probably not of much interest to students of Freudian thought, since Freud, from his side, has fairly effectively kept their intellectual content to a minimum, they are valuable as documents to the man's working personality. Though the correspondence also does not add information that is new, its tenor is further evidence to the fact that inspiring thinkers do not necessarily conduct inspirational private lives. Salome also emerges to her disadvantage: While she expresses herself well, and with considerably more poetry than her more prosaically-minded master, she remains more ladylike than profound. That...
...itself is a new experience for mankind. Nearly a quarter of all people who have lived to age 65 are alive today, and society has not yet learned how to make that phase of life attractive. The present methods of segregating the elderly in "retirement villages" for lives without content or use creates an economic and psychological burden, especially for those merely waiting to die. The image of the prolonged agony of artifical support for an already lost life has many speaking of a vague right called "death with dignity." Humanity has yet to learn how to grow old gracefully...
...self-justifying defenses of Hollywood hacks, and the gassy theorizing of academics. However, especially since her third book (Going Steady) appeared in 1970, she has become an established New Yorker commodity, and increasingly self-indulgent: her responses to films are at times based solely on their generalized erotic content. She has made claims that "male actors need a little bit of fascism to make them attractive." She has been seduced by the camera wizardry of Bob Fosse and Bertolucci, and turned off by the supposed machismo of Straw Dogs. She has also gone bananas over movies just because they have...
...MATURE" works -- from the late sixties to date -- Olitski creates paintings that are models of what a good abstract painting should be. The problem of uniting form and content, honesty and illusion is made almost symbolically explicit by the use of the inner color field and its surrounding borders. Each of those elements, in turn, has both a formal and a sensual function. The formal solution of drawing at the edge of the canvas satisfies a felt need to reflect the frame in the structure of the painting, but also allows old style, "painterly" handling to survive. (The styles...
...meantime, Star Trek fans seem fairly content watching reruns. Even if Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise must visit the same planets over and over again, the Trekies demand that the show go on. Says Kaiser Broadcasting executive Barry Thurston, "This program will never die. It's a classic...