Word: lightheartedness
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Andrew Wyke is an aging member of the gentry who leads a life of informal ease. Wearing an ascot and casual jacket, button-cuffed shirt and white socks, he dictates his latest novel in the garden, gleefully acting out the roles as he speaks into the microphone. The same self...
The Gold Rush. Perhaps no other film is so lighthearted and yet so moving. Charlie Chaplin's story of a lone prospector during the Alaska gold rush is based on pantomime of amazing finesse: Chaplin's direction exemplifies flawless subordination of camera and technique to the subject's subtleties. Many...
Embroidery is essentially decorative. As illusion, it is hobbled by the pattern of stitches, which could never attain the fluidity of line and shading that paint or wash gave. Refined as it is, with its or nue or "shaded gold" method of gold thread couched with varicolored silks, a roundel...
A lighthearted conversation between Henry A. Kissinger '50 and North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho reported in this week's Time Magazine has raised the possibility that Tho may come to Harvard as a visiting professor on Marxism after the Paris peace talks conclude.
In this unexciting campaign, it is the junior partners rather than the presidential candidates who lend color to the proceedings. Agnew, obviously seeking a new image, has for the most part dropped his old shrillness in favor of a more judicious, lighthearted and confident style. Shriver, oddly, often comes across...