Word: insights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will Wait? Some readers will agree with Thornton Wilder that although such writing may not really "elucidate" anything, it contains an interesting insight. They will agree that it is typical of Americans to be impatient, to move on rather than to stay put, to "make money" rather than earn a living in the closefisted way of the French peasant. If the ordinary reader cannot wait while Miss Stein circles about such ideas, that goes to prove her point...
...this English cinema introversion may be, and despite the "all that is British is good" results it leads to, it must be admitted that the films in question have been done in a highly literate vein. Bit it would be refreshing to see the same English film qualities of insight, subtlety, and pictorial honesty applied to non-English and perhaps less prejudiced fields now and then. Despite their quality, the same English faces and the same British virtues threaten to bore emotionally and intellectually...
...denied him by his family. When the son conspires against him, the old man discovers that love cannot be bought, then gives the money to his greedy legitimate children as a sort of franc-for-franc payment of their grudging affection. In giving up his wealth he experiences an insight into godly love, but apparently too late for him to be saved on earth...
...proper Bostonians comprise a small group of a few hundred "first families," who have made Boston thought of in terms of the little poem that ends, "And the Cabots speak only to God." The book, by a member of one of the families, only occasionally attempts to bring sociological insight to the effects or the mores of the proper Bostonians, but it does give a graceful account that is filled with anecdotes and color...
...period and the characters Trilling writes of may seem almost incredibly old-hat to some readers. But Trilling describes them authentically. He writes beautifully about children and sometimes with gently dazzling insight about their elders. Readers may take pleasure in watching him, at the top of his bent, rival E. M. Forster in the manipulation of surprise and anticlimax...