Word: contrivedness
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Echoes, echoes. The critic Lionel Trilling described the novel as "a book which is contrived of echoes." The movie, if it were to achieve the kind of spiritual, as opposed to literal, faithfulness to its source that Lean aspired to, had to be a thing of echoes too?but visual...
Meanwhile, the Sandinistas' own recent flurry of false alarms about an imminent U.S. invasion was, in a sense, silenced by the World Court. Said one West European observer: "The mood in Managua suddenly switched from one of contrived invasion hysteria that most of the populace chose to ignore to...
Wackerbarth and Clarke take the different tack of tacky. Since symbolic red sofas are not a literary or cinematic commonplace, they started right off with a metaphor in search of a meaning. Least Heat Moon's informative but overly journalistic commentary describes the origin of the sofa project in an...
In his two-hour opening statement, Milton Gould, Sharon's attorney, reviewed Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and defended Sharon's decision to allow the Phalangist militiamen to enter the camps on the ground that Palestine Liberation Organization terrorists were still hiding there. Gould said he...
But liberal divestment schemers have contrived a scenario in which Harvard is key. It goes something like this: the ACSR advises the Corporation to divest: the Corporation, feeling morally compelled to wash its hands of apartheid blood, does so; other universities, recognizing Harvard's supreme importance in the grand scheme...