Word: insights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high and achievements as numerous as those which Bard may well be proud of, be considered a failure: The creativity and imagination, intellectual and artistic, which all visitors immediately notice at Bard, has been mistaken for eccentricity, valuable individual freedom for a "Bohemian" type of strained non-conformity, and insight and initiative for ultra-progressivism and fanaticism...
...novel Dostoyevsky's character is wise and good, but his frequent epileptic fits seem paradoxical to his moral eloquence. In the film, the Idiot is more a character of insight and candor. His fits have a mystical quality and come on him when he is confronted by someone seeking a solution to life in evil. Amidst the cunning Russian aristocracy he is an unconscious link with the metaphysical, and Gerard Philipe's performance falters only when he lends more melancholy to his lines than poetic innocence. Edwige Feuillere portrays the bold yet sensitive women who first seeks happiness...
...having Marilyn up front and center, looking winsomely at the landscape. The dialogue is sicklied o'er by a philosophic glaze, and Marilyn's reading of some of her more majestic lines has inspired studio publicity men to trumpet the claim that she "unveils a deep emotional insight and a tender dramatic gift never before displayed." Probably much more to the point is Marilyn's own comment on the satisfactions of co-starring with He-Man Mitchum: "It's wonderful to play opposite a guy you can't pick up and throw across the room...
...This loss will afford much worthwhile insight into the virtue of prudence and the value of money," he explained...
...sort of preliminary warm up, you might try, "After seeing the star-studded cast of Rose Marie in Cinemascope, I want to see Canada's magnificent wonderland of adventure, scene of this glorious spectacle," Although this is a good, solid try of exactly twenty-five words, it lacks any insight into your own personality. A better attempt would be, "A great film in a great natural setting; thrilling, beautiful, cacophonous Canada stirs my imagination beyond limits of the United States; i.e., Niagara Falls." Merely by the insertion of "cacophonous" and "i.e.", the writer is marked as no dumb cookie...