Word: insightful
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...sponge during Delacroix's execution (the wet sponge on top of the prisoner's head conducts electricity directly to the brain, allowing death to occur sooner and less painfully), resulting in a gruesome electrocution scene. John alone recognizes the evil that is everywhere, and the burden of this insight weighs heavily on his soul...
...evil to a spiritual plane. During the climactic scene in which Edgecomb takes Coffey's hand through the bars of his cell, Coffey rewards Edgecomb's faith in him by letting him see the evil that he sees. With sparks flying in the background, Edgecomb glimpses Coffey's insight, and realizes the truth...
...Unfortunately, there is very little in this compilation to rival 1959. Instead, there is a miasma of literary criticism and historical analysis: in both genres, Gordimer chooses summary over insight. In References: The Codes of Culturemaking fun of the title would be shooting fish in a barrel we come to the hardly surprising realization that There is no generic reader, out there; in Our Century, Gordimer is a long distance from shocking us with the information that The mushroom cloud still hangs over us, and the unbearably trite corollary question: will it be there as a bequest...
...Army. "That's just not going to happen," says TIME national correspondent Jack E. White. "The assassination occurred in 1968, so many witnesses are dead, have changed their stories or have failing memories. There's almost no reason to think that a new investigation could produce any new insight...
...Ivanov, a once idealistic young landowner now made tired and obsolete by the failures of the liberal reforms of Czar Alexander III. Ivanov is sick of his life, sick of his wife now dying of tuberculosis, sick of his entire milieu. He is bored with his very existence. The insight and sensitivity that Chekov shows for his characters and their problems comes across in whispers and unsaid words, in the meanings that we hide underneath meaningless social conventions. For Yeremin, though, Chekov's characters must be as grand and deliberate as the sets. Arliss Howard's Ivanov is endlessly...