Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...private works that really count, and in them it's Sargent's skill that gets you (almost) every time. True-blue modernists liked to call it "empty virtuosity"--in their book, virtuosity itself smelled of emptiness anyway; works of art had to be gritty and sincere and full of doubt, in homage to Papa Cezanne. But some kinds of virtuosity are deliciously full; they are self-delighting in their reluctance to turn every stroke of paint into the residue of a moral struggle that may not have really happened; they make difficult performance look easy, and give weight to casualness...
...have little doubt that the Dow will close above 10,000 soon, marking its first true breach of the landmark figure and spurring yet another round of news stories repeating what we've already heard: Dow 10,000 is perfectly meaningless, a number, nothing more. But it all seems like a lot of ink to spill over something that is nothing. In my view, the Number is a red alert to the smoke and mirrors that brought us so far so fast...
Kazan named my father, filmmaker Leo Hurwitz, before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Those who were named before the committee as having been communists had their careers ruined. Was Kazan a great director? Without a doubt. But should he be awarded a special Oscar? Although my father was not called before HUAC, the mention of his name by Kazan and others was enough to end his career in television and studio films for more than 10 years. Thousands of others were victimized by those with whom Kazan actively sided. What might their achievements have been had they not been...
Laurie Metcalf (Roseanne) plays Norm's former social worker who now has to work side by side with this incorrigible slacker. She does well enough, but is stuck with little more to do than yell, "Oh, Norm!" at the appropriate times. The two, no doubt, will learn a valuable lesson from each other every week...
...loyal follower of 19th century positivists, Freud drew a sharp distinction between religious faith (which is not checkable or correctable) and scientific inquiry (which is both). For himself, this meant the denial of truth-value to any religion whatever, including Judaism. As for politics, he left little doubt and said so plainly in his late--and still best known--essay, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), noting that the human animal, with its insatiable needs, must always remain an enemy to organized society, which exists largely to tamp down sexual and aggressive desires. At best, civilized living is a compromise between...