Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Company to supply $6,000,000 at a low interest rate." Although we worked with Mr. Simon and his associates for quite some time in exploring ways that we might be helpful in connection with getting Reston started, there was no "oral deal" involved at any state of our relationship. We are just as sure of this as Mr. Simon is to the contrary...
Nearly 80 years after his death, Vincent Van Gogh still remains a startlingly modern artist. Psychologists continue to delight in analyzing the psychoses betrayed by his tormented whorls. Lovers of abstract expressionism find in his sulfurous palette a close relationship with Pollock and De Kooning. Yet, as is made clear by a lively display of 90 Van Gogh watercolors and drawings (see color opposite) that go on view this month at Philadelphia's Museum of Art, Van Gogh was in more than one major respect a 19th century man. While today's painters see their paintings as objects...
Dickey expands on these ideas in short homilies on the "new morality": "You go to hear ministers in church and you have a feeling that you're listening to fossils. They talk about honor and chastity--who believes in those things anymore? We know the delights of the sexual relationship. . . . Nowadays if you want to f---somebody, you do, if he or she is willing. You just do it for whatever there can be for both of you. This is why The Scarlet Letter is so quaint to us--all that agitation about fornication...
Though he has been connected with various universities, he is no convinced academic. The writing of a poem, he thinks, implies a one-to-one relationship between poet and reader, and he is distrustful of group studies of poetry "where the poem is laid up on the seminar table like a dead cat for dissection, all with a great steaming-up of academic glasses...
Alan Bates, as the simple farmer, Gabriel Oak, and Peter Finch, as the wealthy farmer, William Boldwood, come off better because their characters are not intended to be complex. They serve principally as foils--constants throughout the film off whom the relationship between Miss Christie and Stamp can bounce. Bates, in particular, has landed a strong, sympathetic part, and his ultimate triumph is quite satisfying...