Word: interplays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that writer Foreman has made no attempts to give his characters motivation, to instill them with substance or individuality. To him they are merely puppets, the storyteller's devices in advancing the plot. There is, of course, nothing necessarily wrong with this--it permits a much faster pace. But interplay between puppets is likely to be unconvincing, and indeed it is. David Niven's cynical outbursts are dull unless they are funny, and the whole business about how Anthony Quinn is going to kill Gregory Peck when the war is over just doesn't come off. It makes no difference...
Beyond All Isms. A heavy interplay of curious coincidences and a shallow depiction of character place this book with Silone 's frailer fiction. However, the fact that the main sacrificial act in the novel is performed by a Fascist is significant as well as startling. It marks how much the world and Silone have changed from the 1930s, when left-v.-right politics was not only the ruling international passion but a kind of immutable moral law. The Fox and the Camellias is a book beyond Fascism, Communism, socialism or even humanism. It is a Christian statement, arguing essentially...
...question arose from a statement by George Wald, professor of Biology and head of Natural Sciences 5, who contends that the "interplay between General Education students and concentrators adds greatly" to his course. Natural Sciences 5 serves as both a general education course and the basic course in the Biology Department...
...interplay between the two groups, Wald pointed out, is adding greatly to the course. He noted that the presence of the general education students provides a "scope and breadth of treatment" while the presence of biology and pre-med students "lends a certain stiffening" to the course...
Needless to say, this is not the only moral to be drawn, and Westerners assent at the play's conclusion, simply because there is so much room for philosophic interplay...