Word: sketchier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claim that its director is something more than a nimble comic stylist. He has the good satirist's indispensable quality, moral indignation, and the wit to show it only in bright, bitter, almost subliminal flashes. Perforce less of a surprise than The Three Musketeers, and perhaps a little sketchier in plotting and characterization. The Four Musketeers disappoints only because we know that there is not enough film left in the can to bring D'Artagnan and the rest back just One more time...
Partly for this reason, Spring Snow is hard to evaluate completely now. Word from Japan is that some of its sketchier aspects, notably those dealing with Buddhism and ideas of reincarnation, will be developed later on, changing the emphasis of the whole work. By itself, the book must be judged as an attempt at a grand-scale novel in the 19th century manner. Coming from Mishima, this is a surprise. The material is neither adventurous nor perverse-two qualities often found in his best fiction. The leisurely, well-upholstered prose is far from the impeccable, stripped-down modern style found...
...education by people like Herbert Gintis, lecturer in Education, and by Samuel Bowles, associate professor. These two have demonstrated how little secondary education changes economic relations, particularly as reflected in income distribution. It is further seen in work like Charles Silberman's Crisis in the Classroom how much sketchier high school reform is both in theory and in practice...