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West's novella takes the form of a starkly concentrated interior monologue by the Miss Lonelyhearts figure; other characters are present mostly insofar as they impinge on the protagonist's morbid self-consciousness. In dramatizing Miss Lonelyhearts, Howard Teichmann necessarily invented much new dialogue, some of which functions to round out the motivations of the subordinate characters...
Anna enters Dostoevsky's apartment house as a stranger, and the world she encounters has a meaning only insofar as it has been infused with the life of Dostoevsky's art. As a young girl she had read his novels cloistered in the bushes outside her parents' home until they were snatched away by her older sister. She is in awe of the eminent writer, and at first he is equally uncomfortable in front of her. He must complete The Gambler in order to pay off debts left him by the death of his brother, and he has decided...
...same time, insofar as we can, it is necessary for the Western democracies to recapture the sense that they can control their own destiny-that they are not subject to blind economic forces that sweep across, that produce unemployment, that produce inflation. This is the reasoning behind the planned summit meeting in November...
...Insofar as this cobwebby evening possesses any dramatic impact, it is in the display of grace, or disgrace, under pressure. Some witnesses are wily, some cringe, some babble to save themselves in a variety of plea bargaining, some show valor. It is honorable that Arthur Miller will incriminate no one but him self and that Lillian Hellman's credo is, "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." But that does not automatically brand the men who confessed and "named names" as mor al lepers. When Stalin has been your...
...Viet Nams and their sponsors quickly protested that the U.S. was using the Korea issue as a pretext. Insofar as the U.S. was reluctant to give two U.N. votes to Hanoi, which for all practical purposes runs both Viet Nams, there was some truth to the charge. Even so, the refusal of the Communist and nonaligned countries to consider South Korea's application was nothing less than an egregious violation of the U.N.'s principle of universality...