Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the rationale behind this course is that there is a universality to economics, while personal reflections are individual and speak only particular truths. But a profile need not speak for an entire system--and, as it did here, trying to form such generalizations prevents a writer from penetrating the surface. A seven-page recounting of Santana's shopping strategy on the day she receives her welfare check, complete with the number of blocks she walks in each direction, names of the streets she passes, exactly what she buys and precisely how much she spends, sheds little light...
These days most politicians are happy to call themselves conservative, and liberalism has become the sin that dares not speak its name. The September issue of Commentary in a symposium called "What Is a Liberal-Who Is a Conservative?" provides a useful guide to the semantic bedlam. Most of the 64 contributing intellectuals were once content to call themselves liberal. Now they fastidiously invoke qualifiers. They speak of early and late liberals, paleoliberals, center extremists, tough-minded liberals, of "rad-libs" and "trad-libs...
Next year has arrived, so to speak, and the Crimson will step onto Soldiers Field turf this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. with revenge in its heart and an unbeaten record in the back of its mind. Though last year's performance against B.U. was shuffled to the back of the bus in the midst of a championship season, the memory lingers...
...NICEST things about What Really Happened is the authors' determination to avoid those easy, slick judgments about their characters. Limiting their own role to descriptions and an occasional musing, they allow the people they present to speak for themselves and about each other, using excerpts from interviews. The reader's view is manipulated subtly, by juxtaposition and choice of adjectives--a pleasant change from Decter's brand of opinionated aggressiveness. The subtlety isn't constant, though; every once in a while they throw in a summing-it-all-up pronouncement that detracts from their overall accomplishment. In the profile...
...interview who fares best with Brando is a jocky good-humored man willing to roll with his punches. If Brando insists that they speak German, he does so, and if Brando labels a particular question "stupid," the interviewer laughingly concedes that it is and moves on to something else. It seems an interviewer has one of two choices in dealing with Brando; either ask the typical questions and be met with icy contempt, or allow the talk to play itself out on a pleasant but superficial level. The interview format simply cannot contain the full sensuousness of Brando's character...