Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Violent Transition. In the battle of the psychiatrists that followed, the defense led off with a respected authority on thought control: Dr. Louis Jolyon ("Jolly") West, 51, chairman of the psychiatry department at U.C.L.A. and director of the university's Neuropsychiatric Institute. West was certainly an eye-filling witness-a husky 6 ft. 4 in., he looked like a veteran pro linebacker and handled himself with assurance. Much of West's expertise in what is commonly called brainwashing came from studying 59 Air Force officers captured during the Korean War and subjected to a full thought-conversion process...
...SALE. Old château-cozy rooms-observatory turrets-bird's-eye view of countryside-moss-lined alcoves containing sparkling gems looted from best jewel caskets of European nobility-occupants ready to leave at moment's notice-agent on premises...
...that denouement, LaZebnik has contrived a few good songs and some priceless comic sequences. Unfortunately, though, his creative abandon is undisciplined by a critical eye; and, as a result, the wheat of LeZebnik's on-the-mark parodies remains mixed with the chaff of puns and punch lines that fall pitifully flat...
...Hara does manage to capture twentieth century culture in this country. He has an artist's eye for detail: clothing, automobiles, popular music, slang--all are carefully described in his books. And it is for a purpose. When an O'Hara character drives a Buick or adopts dated slang, it tells something about his personality and social standing...
...CRITIC, Updike displays the same tolerant eye for people which marks his fiction; the reviewer is not in conflict with the poet and novelist in him. His pieces, the majority of which have appeared in The New Yorker, are not pedantic and their appeal is expansive. His topics range from Borges's stoicism, Kierkegaard's tormented religiousity, Grass's flippant cynicism, to subjects of a more light-hearted tone, as for example in his piece called "Jong Love...