Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At Caracas, Carter delighted an audience of several hundred at the airport with a short speech in halting Spanish. Venezuelans said his accent was terrible, but his grammar ,was good and his meaning was clear. "Viva Venezuela," he declared in winding up his remarks.
There are moments in Blake's large output when the linearity of his nudes becomes nearly absurd - they resemble skinned rabbits, thongs of formalized pink tendon. But against these, one must reckon such masterpieces of the imagined figure as Elohim Creating Adam, 1795, with the repressive God of the...
Schiefelbein and many of the professors she quotes say the Faculty must give education a "rationale," "meaning," "coherence." This is fine and good, but unfortunately no one has reduced the meaning of education or the role education plays in a hierarchical society to a pat, formulaic phrase. In fact, it...
Some directors lay on their heavy messages with a trowel; Ken Russell goes at you with a jack-hammer. Women in Love somehow enjoys a reputation as this one man wrecking crew's most meaningful work, but here, as in all his other films, Russell's only evident meaning lies aching behind his zipper. "Was it too much for you?" Oliver Reed asks Alan Bates after they finish a wrestling match in the raw, the homosexual hints dripping off their bodies faster than sweat. Then the line pops up again, this time after Reed has been rollicking in the snow...
IF GORNICK SET OUT to prove that Communists were ordinary human beings who responded to their times in what they deemed an appropriate manner, she succeeds. One wishes, however, that she chose some other manner to do so. Gornick believes that these people became Communists simply because they "cared more...