Word: honestly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Throughout the play Friedman lances pet hates with an ardor so indiscriminate as to seem bracingly honest. The air is unfogged by any pious cant about brotherly love as he tongue-twits Jews, Negroes, Babbitts, Frenchmen, Chinese, Yugoslavs, white liberals, black militants, wives, husbands, thieves and psychiatrists. From this last and presumably lowest shelf of humanity, the playwright produces a fatuously brain-shrunk specimen who brings his patient-paramour to the chateau. She in turn treats Manhattan's theatergoers to the sight of their first topless actress, but it must ungallantly be recorded that the lady's mammaries...
...hopes for the law, and with their hopes for the Law School. This is not to say that he need be an advocate of de facto "student power," merely that he do what Dean Griswold refused to do--seek out a wide variety of student views and make an honest attempt at understanding them. With rare exceptions, those who meet this qualification were all trained in the law after World War II. Because of their youth, they can appreciate fully students' concern with urban decay, international chicanery, racial turmoil, and the problem of extending adequate legal service to the poor...
Berryman is too precise a poet, too careful with his words, and too honest about himself not to have done this completely intentionally. His little statement about his "wuv" prepares the reader pretty well for the 115 sonnets it introduces. With the same accurate, often ironic, self-assessment, and with the passion which those two lines betray. Berryman set out to explore and compose his contradictory reactions to the excellent lady, his adulterous lover...
...sonnets the poet's feelings oppose his situation; he is always aspring either to a more enjoyable or a less unpleasant state. The sonneteer seems doomed to an unrewarded labor. Unable to predict his next reaction, confused about the painful progression of his feelings, trying even to be honest even about his dishonesty--"for poets are eigned to lie, and I / For you a liar am a thousand times." Perhaps his most significant lie is the most implicit: he assumes the continued intensity of his love for Lise, judges his victory by the extent of her involvement in the affair...
...gismo, etc.). Neither does the posited gimmick explain certain notable examples of Serios's pictures described below. The moderate approach fails because the effect of Eisenbud's documentation is to polarize opinion about the Serios affair. There seems to me to be only two opinions possible: 1) Serios is honest and his abilities are genuine; 2) Serios and Eisenbud, and some largish number of witnesses, are involved in a grand collusive hoax...