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...easy nonsequiturs, and it isn't that the advent of Laurent's girl-friend is preferable for everyone concerned to Laurent's incestuous leanings toward his mother. That laughter is by no means inevitable within the context of the film, but Malle's real point is the film's peculiar anti-Romantic heresy. Subtly suggesting the possibility of all kinds of psychological traps for its intelligent and very sensitive adolescent hero (including homosexuality, transvestism, a penchant for cruelty, and of course a permanent sexual attachment to his mother), Malle's film seems to be flatly countering the romantic tradition...
...digging no deeper than the level of official explanation, Ulam loses sight of the peculiar tension characteristic of American democracy. Policy is not created to realize quixotic ideals. No American President invaded Vietnam to preserve freedom. The reasons were partly economic, partly diplomatic, partly strategic. Perhaps even a bit idealistic. But surely altruism was not the motivating cause. Wide-eyed idealism and self-righteous fervor thrive amid official justifications and popular explanations. Among themselves, the professionals are somewhat less noble...
...from the English teaching fellow who reads his essays. Students deciding that they would benefit from instruction and counseling in writing would be able to enroll in a basic expository writing course that teaches general techniques of exposition, or in a specialized writing course that teaches style and techniques peculiar to essays in specific fields (courses similar to the middle group expository writing offerings). In all cases, students should be able to choose the topics for composition...
...seized, chairing the meeting that was supposed to decide what to do with the liberated territory. He stood in the center of the big room on the second floor, surrounded by boisterous rebel comrades, focussing the debate with the combination of total confusion and benign serenity that was peculiar...
...fathers; she and Conner enjoyed what she recalls as "a parody of marriage." Together they went to concerts, studied languages, played cello and piano duets. At 15, Penelope passed Oxford's matriculation exams, but was too young to be admitted. She tried a year at Bennington. There the peculiar Americans informed her that she possessed an Einsteinian...