Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five disparate subplots of the novel, and a young girl named Mick (Sondra Locke), and made it the central theme of the movie. Curiously, although we now see more of Singer, he has become a guardian angel rather than the guiding light he was in the novel. One no longer has the feeling that his presence is essential in the lives of most of the characters. He now just hovers about at a distance. Singer's tragedy--the fact that he never really becomes a part of his friends' lives--is clearer. But the resulting film has no structural focus...
...aging Uncle Man'Antônio in Nothingness and the Human Condition gives away all that he has accumulated during an eventful, prosperous life. "He no longer questioned anything - horizon or eternity - peak or zenith. And so he lived, carrying the burden of years, erect, serene, and doing a doing-nothing with all his might, in acceptance of the emptiness, the ever-repeated inconsequence, of his life...
...stories in the collection are as ethereal. Many abound with typical Guimarāes Rosa characters-robust, self-reliant, as tough and conspicuous as knots in sawn planks. But the ones that matter most are those whose concentric fibers appear to loosen until, stubborn obstructions no longer, they begin to flow with the grain...
...late of the Pentagon is far from being narrow or insensitive. He can stress the excellent record of the Defense Department on open housing. He can enlarge his concept of security to include economic as well as military values. He knows that "solid friends and implacable enemies are no longer so easy to label"-that tags like "free world," "Communism," and "Iron Curtain" are becoming "increasingly inadequate." He steadily argues that there can be no true security for the world as long as such problems as poverty, racism and illiteracy remain unsolved or just half solved...
John Heyburn is a tall, sturdy runner who was a pleasant surprise for last year's championship team, finishing third for Harvard in the crucial Heptagonal meet. John had a disappointing season on the track last year but seems to thrive on the longer distances of cross-country. He has already made significant improvement on his best home course time of last fall...