Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe Visconti is afraid that complexity of character-he uses all his actors as bits of movable scenery-or dramatically meaningful sequences would distract attention from his endless, pointless photography of galloping horses, gliding boats, and light-footed lads. Or maybe the movie is a huge metaphorical joke: Ludwig, after all, built empty, rambling castles where no one ever lived. This movie is constructed along a similar plan. There was, though, a certain magnificence in Ludwig's madness. Visconti's movie is merely maddening...
Consulting plays a major role in many professors' lives, and it cannot help but distract them from their research. Consulting has grown to the point where a recent department chairman (Otto Eckstein) decided to go on half-pay to justify the amount of time he spent with his consulting firm. A committee of department members has studied the consulting problem, but they hardly qualify as disinterested. Undergraduates get lost in the shuffle, and a weak tutorial program (non-credit sophomore year) probably won't help them find themselves...
...Stones of Summer is to be the first of a much larger oeuvre it must have a profound influence on Dow Mossman's vision of life, because it creates an awareness of this world rarely found in a first novel. That its vision is poetic and lengthy does not distract from its final effect, its suggestiveness uncovers the emotions, leaving them exposed to a situation that only lengthy development can make clear...
...author tells of Magog's rise to wealth and prestige. In 1948 Magog, as a specialist in foreign affairs, pays for his sack time with a fierce Israeli girl by secretly shipping arms to the Haganah. He justifies his pleasure by rationalizing that an independent Israel will distract the Arabs from uniting to take over British oil interests. Later, he swells in equity and power as director of postwar real estate development. Outwardly the idealistic public servant, inwardly the unscrupulous hypocrite, Magog exemplifies Sinclair's epigram that "if politics was the art of the possible, then principles were...
Exams may distract the majority of the Crimson wrestlers. Having wrestled four times during reading period, several starters have Lee's permission to tackle Widener and Lamont this evening...