Word: endless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Novelist Grau is deliberately vague about the outcome. What concerns her here, as in her earlier books (The Hard Blue Sky and The Black Prince and Other Stories), is not plot but the endless flux of feeling. Writers of encyclopaedic novels would do well to read her-and learn how to catch the shape of a lifetime in the merest shadow of an event...
...poet's way of fighting the machine. In a poet's intuitive fashion, he was plumbing the "collective unconscious" before Jung labeled it, celebrating the irrational before Freud discovered its starring role. Far from having the gift of self-analysis, Yeats possessed instead a talent for endless self-dramatization. There are extended comments in the essays on Shakespeare, Shelley, Blake, William Morris and Balzac, but one quickly discovers that these are pseudonyms for William Butler Yeats. Then there is Yeats, the prophet of the Celtic Twilight (the "cultic twalette," Joyce called it), sitting on the turf in Connacht...
...Fascist Italy. In Two Women, mother (Sophia Loren) and daughter (Eleonora Brown), prove that in World War II Italy, only those who suffer can love. La Dolce Vita is a sprawling, formless masterpiece of modern Rome's spiritual depravity and sexual excess, and L'Avventura is another endless but masterly dissection of the malignant tedium that grips contemporary Italy's empty-souled profligates...
...third panelist viewed the situation from a practical standpoint. William Morris Hunt '36, who as executive producer of the Cambridge Drama Festival has been working to provide audiences with the great works of theatre on a non-commercial basis, said that there is "enormous potential if one has endless patience...
...Avventura (in Italian). Another endless but masterly dissection of the malignant tedium that grips contemporary Italy's empty-souled profligates...