Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spreading a veneer of euphoria over it. The ending of the movie is an affirmation of individual female liberation that denies collective liberation. It overlooks the fact that the fight for human equality in the face of a sexist system threatens the substructure of that system. Denying this insight, the movie denies the grounds for women's rejection of the dominant vision of society. Whatever potential bombshells germinate in Nora are hidden when she slips away without ever defining her relationship to her society. And the audience who identifies with her denies decades of change...
...movie conceals more than it reveals. It solicits your empathy with a predicament that most feminists have long since understood as superficial. And then it congratulates your dated insight upon its universality. It indulges in a form of fingerpointing liberalism that stops short of doing anything about the state of being it describes...
...PLAY is, I suppose, best termed a tragicomedy. But this hybrid is not homogeneous. For all the philosophic insight, the dramaturgy is faulty. The first half of the play shows the stuff of tragedy, although the work contains not a single character of real stature. When Shakespeare boxes himself into a corner half way through, his personages cease to be rounded--if inconsistent--characters; he takes the Duke-Nixon outside the play and turns him into a sort of divine puppeteer who pulls his strings whimsically, and he winds up with an opera buffa finale that is in a different...
This astonishing insight into Richard Nixon's private musings on whether he should resign the presidency over Watergate came not long ago from someone who should know: his younger daughter. Julie Nixon Eisenhower, 24, is the only Nixon who has refused to shun public exposure in the wake of the scandal and has chosen instead to carry her father's case forcefully to the public...
When Benjamin Disraeli wrote Sybil and Henry Adams wrote Democracy, they invented the novel of politics with wit, coherent political philosophy and some insight into the great worlds of London or Washington in which they moved. In the century since, the novel of politics has come a long way-straight down. But the reader's fascination with power continues, and those Washington journalists who grope into fiction are as prolific...