Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embarrassing overdose of social criticism, a whole slew of caricatures, and a flimsy stab or two at continuity--like the dwarf, who made this trip to help us distinguish between the good guys and the bad. (Those who say' "That dwarf has real feelings, the same as any regularized person," are the good guys. Those who say, "That dwarf is nothing but an old dwarf," are the bad guys...
Hamilton defines Christ not as a person or an object but as "a place to be" -and the place of Christ, he asserts, is in the midst of the Negro's struggle for equality, in the emerging forms of technological society, in the arts and sciences of the secular world. "In the time of the death of God, we have a place to be," he says. "It is not before an altar; it is in the world, in the city, with both the needy neighbor and the enemy...
...show with their patented idiosyncrasies. To keep an eye on everyone, there is the man from Scotland Yard-dryly played by Sir Laurence Mivier, who seems bemused to find his king-sized talent tucked into so mundane a role. Obviously, Inspector Olivier has a clue that no sensible person ought to worry too much about missing Bunny...
...discussions of art, Berenson was relentlessly dazzling: "Artistic creation, in relation to its creator, is like a hernia -it has the least possible zone of communication with his actual person." Furthermore: "We lack today, with our use of cement, any sense of resistance of material; and where the material does not resist there is no longer any art. Cement is like cardboard, giving way in any direction, and adaptable to every use. Art should break the bonds of material...
...commonplace of fashionable fiction, but this attempt is anything but commonplace. Author Cole, a 32-year-old lecturer in the humanities at M.I.T., has wit, charm, timing, a flair with atmosphere, a felicity of verbal gesture, a feeling for character so insidious it persuades the reader that every person of the drama is really just an unlived aspect of his own self. An End to Chivalry is a beginning of brilliance...