Word: doggedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Oh" for an Answer. At their best, the new Czech films combine a zest for cinematic experimentation with a thematic audacity and wry humor that is surprising in a Communist culture. A recurrent motif of the Prague cinemakers is the plight of the dogged individualist who bombards society with question...
Only a certain number of undergraduates have the dogged theatrical ambition to hang around the Loeb long enough to master its technical demands. The peculiar virtue of the Loeb is that it is equipped to stage large-scale, technically polished, professional-style productions. But only a hard core of theater...
Reading the Advocate Anthology is like re-reading your freshman Gen Ed papers three years later; it simply embarrasses you. The best work is outrageously derivative; you suffer for Thomas Huxley or H.L. Mencken or Henry Miller or whoever was being imitated. The worst causes real anguish; only Harvard undergraduates...
Senators never felt grander. The Congress decided what industries to protect with tariffs, what railroads to build, what public works to undertake. They chose, or thought they chose, Presidents. And they were hawks: the Senate had more than its share in pushing the U.S. into the Spanish-American War. Some...
Shortly after the murders, Capote was propelled to Kansas, a region that is as alien to his spirit as Mars, by the scarcely original premise that any truth exhaustively explored can furnish better story material than fiction. He dogged the story off and on for six years. A diminutive, eccentric...