Word: eccentricism
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Critics of the movie, most prominently Roger Ebert, say that its emphasis on the white man's burden of nobility betrayed a willful ignoring of Tom Robinson, the real person in peril. Atticus loses face; Tom loses his life, but his case is seen not as his or his race...
For Marin, this becomes a moral crisis, and it must be said that neither here nor elsewhere in the movie does Bégaudeau or Cantet take it easy on the teacher. Like all the other caring and humane faculty members - maybe the film could use one or two cynics...
Cut from the mold of a 1970s post-Watergate maverick politician, Quinn has long been viewed as a serious-minded, if eccentric, reformer. In his 30s, after graduating from Georgetown and Northwestern, he tried to amend the state constitution to allow residents to enact laws through referendums. He once urged...
Petri is an energetic and outgoing foil to the soft-spoken Waite, but he says that they were drawn together by their shared characteristics. “We’re both classic concentrators, and she’s much more female,” Waite says, adding, ?...
The mushroom cloud was the symbol under which the mid-20th century was baptized. As the last great global tumult, the Second World War represented the convergence and the stratification of ideologies. But what hoisted itself above all of these intersecting faiths—above fascism, communism, capitalism, democracy?...