Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Following graduation and a six-month sojourn in Europe, Reed settled down in Greenwich Village where he got a job on Max Eastman's New Masses. Here Reed came into contact with artists and intellectuals--Van Wyck Brooks, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Max Weber, and Eugene O'Neill among them--who pushed the tenor of political consciousness in the Village toward the Left...
...actor, but the fact that movies like Three Days of the Condor are not really worth making at all is a thought that occurs to no one. Neither Redford, Director Sydney Pollack (The Way We Were) nor any of the assortment of assembled co-stars (Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman) can make material like this better than passable. No one could, and you wonder why anyone bothers. Redford and all his co-stars and all the elaborate production details are aimless embellishment, like putting neon lighting around a void...
They have decked their official home with a handsome set of artworks, including 15 to 20 items from Rocky's personal collection. For the master bedroom they have donated the famous $35,000 "cage" bed designed by Surrealist Max Ernst, which will remain after the family leaves. It has a seven-foot mink coverlet, trap doors for lamps, telephones and stereo controls, as well as accompanying sun and moon medallions at the head and foot, and a lithograph of Ernst's painting The Great Ignoramus. The Rockefellers have also contributed a dozen pieces of furniture, including Korean...
...Max Weber, in his famous essay, these sentiments were the essence of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. They sum up an ethos that is against the profligacy of a court life or the indifference to time of a Mediterranean culture. Franklin defends as just an attitude that in medieval life would have been condemned as avaricious...
Wilfrid Sheed is almost certainly the best American reviewer of books. He is also, as he has shown in Max Jamison and People Will Always Be Kind, a novelist of wit and intelligence. When his prose has erred, it has always been on the side of elegance; he has never been known to write a bad or foolish line...