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...level of national income and one of the continent's best universities, it is one of Black Africa's few economic success stories. But these facts receive scant attention in Naipaul's work. Naipaul is explicit about his choices of subject. He travels to a country to find the interplay of new facades and old structures; his writing is cultural anthropology applied to journalism or fiction...
...interplay between these two opposing approaches to children becomes another central theme. For instance while George and Lila insist on referring to PS's mother as "Dear One." Vanessa tells PS to say "my mother." Some of the most important...and visually beautiful--scenes are shot in the wild and grassy cemetery where Sinden is buried Unwilling to explain the mystery and loss of death to the boy. Lila and George tell him Sinden is with the angels. Vanessa sets him straight...
...beau of convenience, Kevin Conroy is boisterously funny yet pathetic, reveling in his self-image as "a brute," never realizing that it is he who is being overpowered. Inge did not transform his characters: they end where they began. But he understood them. In their interplay was genuine life, often blunted but ever resilient. -By William A. Henry...
...Sandel says that he will address these criticisms in a new book, which will discuss the state of liberal democracy in America, one half philosophical, and one half institutional and historical. "It's a study of the interplay of ideas and institutions. I'm trying to identify the public philosophy in our institutions. Where the last book was concerned with moral and political ideas, the new book tries to draw the connection of the theory and practice in contemporary America," the professor says. Sandel took a leave of absence this spring to do research on the topic...
...Koppel also sounds proud of many "Nightline" segments. he counts among his favorites one broadcast from Harvard on nuclear strategy--"the interplay was very good"--and a recent show that paired the Iranian and Iraqui ambassadors. "There's something ironically bizarre about that," Koppel says. "The last time they talked was on Nightline. That's wonderful TV, even instructive...