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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reader. Often he will look up entirely and lapse into a reverie suggested by the text. People read when they want to be alone with themselves, when they shun the social engineering of the media. In other words, reading is becoming more and more like writing-a rare and hermetic pursuit of individual consciousness, the last abode of the Bourgeois individualist resisting the new tribalism...
...comparison, Harvard has only five men returning from its first boat, and its freshman crew lost to Penn's twice. But Harry Parker is the Harvard coach, and his exceptional rowing knowledge and rare inspirational abilities may well offset Penn's manpower advantages...
Going to bed in Japan these days often requires a good night's sleep in advance. No more can the weary traveler anticipate curling up on the traditional straw mat, bundled between layers of silken spreads-or even on a regular bed, which is still rare in Japan. Instead, he is likely to find himself a helpless passenger aboard a vehicle that sways from side to side, swoops abruptly to the ceiling, or flips up and down in three-quarter time. For a beddo only sounds like a bed. In fact, it is an electronic adventure...
Intimates relish his flashes of dinner-table wit, which are nearly always aimed at one of the establishments he is bucking. "The people at regulatory agencies are utterly confounded when we come to investigate them," he says. "They have forgotten what citizens look like." On rare evenings out at a party, he usually leaves early to get in a couple more hours of reading, writing or phoning at his office. Though Bachelor Nader has no antipathy to girls, he rarely has the time or inclination for dates. Says his father: "We're very proud of Ralph. But we wish...
...action of the whole film is so restrained that secondary characters are almost completely absent; Sorrows is simply about the emotional progress of two people. Nevertheless the rare actions of people other than the principals illuminate the situation of the principals without seeming to be bits of business Griffith picked to reveal the central relation of the film. After Cortez has bought his wife-to-be a cup and saucer they stand outside a pawnshop, facing the camera, admiring the cup. A woman comes up to them, takes a look at it, and passes off to one side. We never...