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Word: dissection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Critics, therefore, could and did point out that Cummings was an outrageously simple-minded fellow and an anachronism-a misplaced Victorian romantic still running around a hundred years after the battle with science has been lost, shouting "They murder to dissect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: E. E. Cummings: Poet of the Heart | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...Letters of Beethoven, edited by Emily Anderson. For those who are forever trying to dissect genius, this is an instructive and humbling collection; the composer's letters show him to have been petty, sour, contentious and a hypochondriac, and give no hint at all of the spirit that soars in his music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dec. 22, 1961 | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

...Letters of Beethoven, edited by Emily Anderson. For those who are forever trying to dissect genius, this is an instructive and humbling collection; the composer's letters show him to have been petty, sour, contentious and a hypochondriac, and give no hint at all of the spirit that soars in his music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dec. 15, 1961 | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...sentimental than Boswell about Johnson's marriage, at 25, to a well-to-do widow almost twice his age. Boswell paints it as a love match; Hawkins accepts without disapproval the more credible view that it was a marriage of convenience. The chilling dispassion with which Hawkins could dissect a friend's motives is apparent in his remarks on the widow's death. Johnson, he reports, showed an inconsolable sorrow, and a return to his lifelong severe melancholy; yet, "I have often been inclined to think that if this fondness of Johnson for his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Unclubbable Man | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...association is largely a journalists' creation. Fellini, 41, and Antonioni, 48, are experimenters whose latest films delicately dissect the effete upper classes. Visconti, who is 55, still concerns himself with peasants and is old-guard; in Rocco he has reverently revived the techniques he and such directors as Rossellini (Open City) and De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) used in the 1940's. Rocco keeps all the bench marks of Italian neo-realism-the urine-streaked tenement walls, the fields full of rubble, the endless squawk of language ("Ecco! Ecco! Basta! Basta!"). And flaring fitfully in the three-hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blood & Brother Love | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

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