Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...screenwriter Tom Stoppard have made an interesting attempt to put Vladimir Nabokov's novel Despair on film. Anyone who has read the book might think that reconceiving the story in cinematic terms would be impossible--the tale relies on the reader's acceptance or disbelief of the first-person narrator's word. But Stoppard's conception is genius; only the delivery falls short of the mark...
Beer said he is skeptical about the value of small group teaching. Small classes are a good introduction to the competitive world where one is trained for "government by committee and how to be a better member of Faculty Council," he said. Students learn that "the person who comes prepared wins," Beer said...
...person standing in University Hall would receive more radiation from the granite than the children do at Palfrey. Even though there is no danger, it is just as well to move them because we're dealing with children," Brewer said...
Exploring the pathalogical psychology of families is a fairly new idea to psychiatrists, and an entirelv new one to American film. Although the mourer, who creates and controls the family's world as she would one of her interiors, is clearly the most neurotic and unstable person in the family, the focus of Interiors is not on her alone. Instead, Allen examines how her illness reflects on each member of the family, and in all of their relations with one another. Each character, with the exception of the daughters' husbands, stands as an individual, compelling our attention...
...admires the new Pope is Anna? Teresa Tymieniecka, a fellow Pole who heads the Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research. Wojtyla is an expert in phenomenology, a theory of knowledge that bases scientific objectivity upon the unique nature of subjective human perception. He has written a major work on it, Person and Act (1969), which Tymieniecka is translating into English. Summarizing the Pope's complex thought, she says: "He stresses the irreducible value of the human person. He finds a spiritual dimension in human interaction, and that leads him to a profoundly humanistic conception of society...