Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understanding of each character's emotional crises. Larry Gardner, who wrote both the screenplay and the original book, does better exploring the subtleties of some of the individuals he has created than he does interweaving his many characters into a plot. Using Gardner's ingredients, with his own perceptive eye for descriptive detail, John Huston accentuates the actors' moods and emotions superbly. In one memorable scene, the fighters' reactions to a continually opening car trunk sharply underscore their excitement before driving to a match...
...different points in the novel, informed that there is an inheritable disease in the Williams family, and that Dawes has only sixteen months to live. But Dawes seems to die of an eye infection, which he may have purposely tried to receive, and then neglected. The final question remains does he accept death because he wills it or because it's immediately inevitable...
...escapes Andreski's critical eye. He believes that experimental psychologists like Harvard's B.F. Skinner are seriously misinterpreting human nature: "When the psychologists refuse to study anything but the most mechanical forms of behaviour-often so mechanical that even rats have no chance to show their higher faculties-and then present their most trivial findings as the true picture of the human mind, they prompt people to regard themselves as automata, devoid of responsibility or worth, which can hardly remain without effect upon the tenor of social life." Freud, Adler and Jung? Although psychoanalysts "offer many fundamental insights...
...possible to mix social legislation with the big business of the Common Market." He adds that, "the part that business can play is in fair and socially sensitive hiring policies. Companies must not merely select candidates on the basis of training or aptitude, but must keep a strong eye out for sex, race, socioeconomic standing and need." Saint-Geours's statements have raised some eyebrows in the stuffy world of French banking. "The system is basically an old-boy net," he says, "and it overlooks dozens of qualified men who drop out because they do not feel involved...
...mania for list making that afflicts everyone from Joyce to Susan Sontag. There are catalogues of Edwin's first utterances ("nnnn" for complaining, "kkkk" for giggling and "chff" - "an early version of Jeffrey?"); the 54 books Edwin owned at age two. There are also bull's-eye descriptions of the exquisite boredom of kindergarten, and a fine malevolent parody of children's picture books called The Lonely Island ("Sometimes rain came to the island...but then it went away...The island dreamed "of an ocean with many islands...The island woke up. It saw...another island...