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...attempt on the part of viewers to speculate on the deeper meanings of these ashes and what they signify would be pointless in this weak cinematic adaptation of the book. What works for the book--different incidents from McCourt's childhood that connect to create a rich, moving mosaic of his life growing up in Ireland--fails miserably on-screen. Episodic and unsatisfyingly static, the film is bound to disappoint fans of McCourt's memoir...
...right track: it is this kind of truth that is meaningful to the writer of fiction, truth to the spirit. The problem is, this is also the kind of truth that needs to be important to the writer of the kind of nonfiction which Gordimer attempts. It is almost pointless to write journalism about the future of literature, or about the evolution of a truly democratic South Africa, that does not somehow strike a new chord in the reader. Gordimer manages to cover the most emotionally intense period in her country's history in a way that is factually true...
...science anchored in mathematics was capable of describing and predicting the workings of the universe with a precision previously undreamed-of. It was their success that made the wooly scholarship of the Scholastics and their intractable debates about the concrete existence of general categories seem ridiculous and pointless. The Enlightenment was, above all, the triumph of reasoning over scholarship...
...right track: it is this kind of truth that is meaningful to the writer of fiction, truth to the spirit. The problem is, this is also the kind of truth that needs to be important to the writer of the kind of nonfiction which Gordimer attempts. It is almost pointless to write journalism about the future of literature, or about the evolution of a truly democratic South Africa, that does not somehow strike a new chord in the reader. Gordimer manages to cover the most emotionally intense period in her countrys histo...
Your editorial about MIT fraternities, "Mistake after Mistake"(Editorial, Nov. 5) was a travesty. In addition to only showing one side of the story, it contained several pointless insults directed at MIT that lack relevance or journalistic maturity...