Search Details

Word: dieses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Person returns to Switzerland for the last time to seek out the memory of his dead wife in places they had been together. On the first visit, Person's father dies and releases him into a feeling of his own freedom. On the second, a business trip to see the...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Nabokov | 11/9/1972 | See Source »

The basis of the writer's art, a closed world with that infinity inside, remains inexplicable. When, in the last chapter of Transparent Things, Person dies in a mysterious fire which re-enacts the dream in which he strangled his wife, does it mean that the being of the novel...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Nabokov | 11/9/1972 | See Source »

Sept. 3, 1969. Ho Chi Minh dies.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Chronology: Generation of Conflict | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

Like most Ozu films. "Tokyo Story" is about the increasing contrasts between old and new Japan. And like all Ozu films, the plot is so plain, despite its variety of psychological and emotional levels, that it can be summarized as an anecdote. An old couple leave their home in the...

Author: By Celie B. Betsky, | Title: The Coming of Age in Tokyo | 11/3/1972 | See Source »

In the new ethic, people will still work to live, but fewer will live only to work. As Albert Camus put it: "Without work all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies." It will be a long while, if ever, before men figure out ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Is the Work Ethic Going Out of Style? | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

Previous | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | Next