Word: maximalism
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...Russian play imported to Japan, with its dark humor and dour humanity intact--indeed, italicized? That's what Akira Kurosawa managed in 1957 with his faithful film of Maxim Gorky's claustrophobic epic. The Criterion edition offers a bonus: Jean Renoir's '36 version, with Jean Gabin in the role of the charismatic thief played in the Kurosawa film by Toshiro Mifune. It's a chance to see two movie masters stamp their genius on a superb drama...
...stage musical that will be licensed for local productions, beginning this fall. More important, the HSM mania may mark a torch-passing from one generation to the next. Puberty is suddenly geriatric; for marketers, tweens are the new teens. Entertainment entrepreneurs have realized the truth of a maxim as pertinent to education as to commerce: Get them while they're young, when they can be instilled with values, not simply reinforced with prejudices...
Murder and genocide are categorically intolerable. Ultimately, it was that maxim that led Harvard to divest itself of its holdings in Sinopec, and it is why we resoundingly support and applaud Harvard’s announcement last month that it will sell its Sinopec shares...
...there was another reason for the diplomatic pair?s alarm; the Washington maxim that all politics is local. With Iraq teetering on the edge of civil war, the poll numbers of both the Bush and Blair governments were sliding and their political effectiveness was diminished. ?The American people, and the British people, and others who have sacrificed need to know that everything is being done to keep progress moving here,? Rice said at a press conference in Baghdad on April...
...truth, truth reached ultimately not through reason but through faith.” Yet, in 1878, The Crimson reported a remark about the “Veritas” seal made by one Dr. Holmes at a Harvard Club dinner in New York. It might well serve as our maxim in 2006: “The Harvard College of to-day wants no narrower, or more exclusive motto than truth—truth which embraces all that is highest and purest in the precepts of all teachers, human or divine...