Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discussing the coincidental case with which they rose to prominent positions and the freedom they afforded themselves and others, these artists reveal a sublimely naive attitude toward their business, if not their craft. They are often unwilling to acknowledge the development of American film into a major mass-produced consumer product thriving on standardization. They know they were great: that their best cameraman could light like Rembrandt and did, that their designers recreated detail with unsurpassed fidelity, most of all that the degree of collaborative improvisation they enjoyed produced high art and certainly America's greatest screen comedy...
...some extent their retrospective feelings reveal a degree of reaction which had to be replaced by healthier attitudes. Magaret Booth, once MGM's top editor, says...
...CANCER WARD, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Soviet author uses a cancer ward as a metaphor for Communist society; the doomed patients reveal jagged, damning insights into the everyday enormities of life under Stalin. Not so successful a book as The First Circle, it is still a relentless narrative and a powerful, often poetic novel...
...closest advisors said it was a mistake to reveal my method of prognostication before the end of the season. No, I said, Ivy League people are for the most part ethical; there'll be no trouble. And so, as you remember, last Saturday, I told...
...autobiographical essays that was first published in Italy in 1965, deals basically with Silone's belief in the enduring relevance of these values. In this regard, it is a work of optimism that avoids the sap of positive thinking and goes directly to its roots. As the essays reveal, these roots are inextricably bound up with Silone's own-with his youth among the landless peasants of the Abruzzi mountains, with his early religious training, with the earthquake that left him an orphan at 14, and with the Fascists, who killed his sole surviving brother. Many of these...