Word: subjectively
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Unfortunately only one other story in the collection works these techniques to as great an advantage. "The Sea of Lost Time" explores Marquez's primary obsession, death, but unlike most of his gloomy musings on the subject, this' story suggests that though death is frightening because of the uncertainty connected with it, the world of the dead may be more charming than that of the living...
...those invited out to Hickory Hill, Bobby's mansion, "the most spirited social center in Washington." And as this colleaguecum-historian writes, "It was hard to resist the raffish, unpredictable, sometimes uncontrollable Kennedy parties." So this is biography written by the Washington equivalent of a drinking buddy of the subject. And the book's credibility is cut still further when, in a passage set in the early '60s, the author suddenly enters the picture, standing at poolside at Hickory Hill. And once the reader learns that he was pushed in, fully clothed, by Mo Udall's wife, the image...
...Mature people gravitate to mature subject matters. Situation comedies in the '50s and '60s made a statement by omission louder than any I could have made," television writer and producer Norman Lear said yesterday...
...Along the Red Ledge, for all its innovative passages and solid instrumental work, is a puzzling piece of music. It has almost everything, from a harmless love song called "August Day," written by Sara Allen (the subject of "Sara Smile" and a constant Hall and Oates companion and contributor), to a poor attempt at a Phil Spector rocker, called "The Last Time." There's a great orchestral work in "I Don't Wanna Lose You," a fine tune which may do well as a pop single; but the range and uneveness of the album as a whole make it almost...
...purpose of the lecture is not merely to convey information to students, MacCaffrey said, out rather to give a dramatic structure to the subject so that a sense of its wholeness will develop...