Word: slavishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poem with a prose introduction and conclusion on a much lower level. Since the picture of Job is not consistent in the first place, says Van Dusen, Dr. Terrien's complaint that J.B. is not faithful to the Book of Job is irrelevant. Instead of "slavish imitation" of the Biblical Job, "Mr. MacLeish authentically sets forth the response of a very modern man to substantially parallel adversities. And again, his J.B. is far more convincing, as he is certainly vastly more moving, than the incredible...
...Japanese, so often accused of slavish copying, are capable of adding their own fantastic variations to what they borrow. Take parliamentary government, for example...
...meticulous destruction of its myth, its mythologists and its common gulls make this a book that should be read in the U.S. Aron is writing mostly of French intellectuals, but much of what he says applies to many intellectuals elsewhere-their futurism, their dogmatic opposition to religion, their slavish conformity to the stale attitudes of "nonconformity," their long willingness to excuse Soviet crimes in the name of a higher aim (scathingly, Aron asks why so many had to wait for the Hungarian massacres to become indignant when the purge trials, the slave labor camps, the Katyn massacre, the mass deportations...
...Edwards places what he calls 'emotional honesty' first in importance," read the high-flown album notes. "He believes that technical accuracy, slavish adherence to original harmonies and melody are secondary. Mrs. Edwards returned from private life to take part in this album, selecting her own repertoire of sophisticated songs, several of which she originally introduced in Trenton, N.J." Thus Columbia Records several weeks ago launched a new pianist-singer team on an album entitled The Piano Artistry of Jonathan Edwards, currently the liveliest sleeper on the market. In the album's cover picture, two right hands linger...
...novels bring her fame, riches, even Paradise House. Money enables Angel to capture a husband, and bore him to death. She turns his spinster sister into her slavish admirer. Her gentle publisher views her with pity and terror. Nearly everyone else is appalled by her selfishness, her indifference to the pain of others. But people cannot touch her, for Angel is totally without humor and icily armored against embarrassment, against all reality...