Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nathanael West's cool, cruelly funny novel, first published in 1939, has become a classic vision of the heart of Southern California. West, who did some screenwriting himself, knew the raw fringes of the movie world. He saw the kind of anxiety that led people to Los Angeles and the gaudy madness that was nurtured there. He used Los Angeles, and particularly the tawdry glamour of Hollywood, as a perfect metaphor for the screaming end of many poor dreams of glory. West wrote with fury, but without rancor or condescension. "It is hard to laugh at the need...
...comprehensive impression of these women is sincere, the quotes are too long, repetitive and humorless. Worse, the photographs too rarely give us any insight into the character of the sitters. Those that do, like the picture of the lesbian couple sitting on the steps outside their apartment, their faces cool masks of defiant disdain, make the verbal statements superfluous...
...bright daylight. "Most photographers were very uneasy in my youth and they all were uncomfortable about whether what they were doing was art or not. I never was bothered about that, luckily--mencumbered by that nonsense." Evans always had a firm conviction in "straight" photography. His is "cool, precise as a police report, emotionally aloof," according to John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern...
Then, as he talked about Harvard's fast 1000-meter times and this week's improved rowing. Shealy's confidence increased. Cool and convinced, he concluded, "We're going to blow the doors...
Unfortunately, the authors of the new quantitative history themselves often deter this broader evaluation of their work by their exaggerated claims to objectivity. "Success in this operation required, no less than in the operating room of a modern hospital, the adroit use of professional skills in a cool, detached manner." Fogel and Engerman write in their second volume. But it was not a detached analysis that told Fogel and Engerman how many whippings constitute harsh treatment of slaves, or how much confidence slaveholders had that the system would endure. So long as a researcher confines himself to recompiling old records...