Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...otherwise intangible essences. Evoking the petty frenzy of the city, the pathos of a serious little king, the baroque speech of a gossipy lady, the spirit of Los Angeles, and the monumentality of a romantic clock, he uses familiar objects and simplistic design to capture the soul of his subject...
...dwelling on any one subject too long, he also commented on his heresy trial, the gold crisis, and his controversial religion...
...today's price. It would also keep U.S. gold losses to a minimum. The free-market price of gold would un doubtedly soar, but that at least would promote mining and hinder future spec ulation. Raising the price of gold would require authorization from Congress, a process so subject to debate and delay and consequent speculation in gold that it is a practical impossibility. Reierson's plan, on the other hand, could be put into effect swiftly. It needs no approval by Congress and only administrative as sent from other countries...
Wallace Markfield's novel, To An Early Grave, was a bitter, satirical dissection of Manhattan's middle-class Jewish intellectuals, a book peopled by the kind of quarrelsome critics and lecturers who read Partisan Review for laughs. All things considered, it was not a very promising subject for a movie, but Director Sidney Lumet took a crack at it anyway-jettisoning most of Markfield's literary humor in favor of Jewish situation comedy. The result, called Bye Bye Braverman, has a lot to talk about, and nothing much...
...mere thought of writing a book on a subject that the late James Thurber tackled should produce writer's block in any author now living. Thurber's The Years with Ross was an epitaph that the volatile and volubly profane founder and editor of The New Yorker would himself have pronounced definitive. Jane Grant has one advantage, and only one, that Thurber lacked: she was Ross's first wife (of three) and helped him start The New Yorker. In fact, she says openly what too many wives secretly believe about their husband's successes: "He would...