Word: human
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...called a "human treasure" by his fellow Japanese, and few authors have so compellingly evoked the subtle, precise beauty of his homeland. His prose is clear, deceptively simple; yet the images scattered through his narratives link together to produce deep, sudden insight into the souls of his characters - and of Japan. Until last week, however, Yasunari Kawabata was all but unknown in the West. Then, to the surprise of many, he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize for literature for his contributions, as the citation put it, to the "spiritual bridge spanning between East and West...
Doctors were proud when they devised ways of using magnets to extract iron and steel objects from patients-usually nails and safety pins from children's gullets or stomachs. Now they are carrying the idea much farther by inserting magnets to get at hitherto inaccessible parts of the human body...
...McCarthy supporters like Mr. Peretz, who indulge their own bitterness by refusing to back Humphrey against Nixon and Wallace, on the fantastic grounds that there is negligible difference between Humphrey and his right-wing opponents, destroy any pretensions they may have had to sincere concern for social justice and human rights. Affluent inttellectuals can afford to care only about the war and nothing but the war. But I dare them to tell a welfare mother in Roxbury, face to face, that "the worst of times" will be no worse under Nixon. I dare them to say it to Cesar Chavez...
...lives in the U.S., keeps the relationship between the two books vague, but the almost autistic state of mind and the prose-voice in both are nearly identical. It is the flat, emotionless tone of the survivor whose shattering experiences have set him outside the conventional boundaries of the human race. No longer capable of giving or receiving compassion, the victim-the painted bird-has survived and grown into a bird of prey that thrives on acts of voyeurism, cruelty and revenge...
Luckily Prince has found the right actor to voice the spectrum of human emotions so crucial to Zorba. His name is Herschel Bernardi and I can't get him out of my mind. For Zorba, every minute of life must be lived as if death were around the corner, with no time to be wasted. Raising his eyes to the Crete sky, spreading open his arms, and kicking out his feet as if he could surely ascend to heaven if he worked enough at it, Bernardi makes not only a stunning Zorba but a majestic spectacle of human will...