Word: pointedness
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A couple of weeks ago, during a Wit and Humor lecture, English professor Leo Damrosch pointed out that, in literature, it’s often the jesters who have the greatest insights into life. Mercutio is the character with the most depth in Romeo and Juliet, Falstaff holds that distinction...
Yet at this stage, such an approach would be misguided. As Fred Barnes pointed out in the Weekly Standard last summer, the only times Castro’s made real concessions on emigration and liberalization in the past 44 years have been when a mixture of domestic economic turmoil and...
Najaf's civilians watched with hope and concern last week as the 101st made repeated incursions into the city, rooting out the remnants of regular and irregular Iraqi forces. After four days of cautiously advancing--sometimes fighting house to house, sometimes guided by civilians who pointed out the positions of...
The critic James Wood has pointed out that the decline of the Bible's authority in the 19th century coincided with the rise of the modern novel. Elie reminds a wistful 21st century reader how urgently books used to matter. Books--by Dante, Blake, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Joyce, Jacques Maritain...
Inside the city, near the military airport the Americans now use as a base, teenage boys gave high-fives to the American soldiers as they went in and out. When a car loaded with looted goods - a taxi with thirty foam mattresses piled high on the roof, for example - drove...