Word: summatione
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Alas, one imagines not. But even if Bill Clinton has not quite cracked John F. Kennedy's gold standard of presidential superstardom, his personality has overshadowed recent politics to a degree far surpassing any of his post-Kennedy predecessors'. With his palpable need to be loved, Clinton is surely the...
His poetry was a second tincture of Walt Whitman; and, finally, not good for all that much more than correcting the roll on a pool table. But when the world thinks of Chicago, does it think of Vachel Lindsay ("We were Prairie Democrats, and this was our day") or Darrow...
But anxiety is never far away; it breaks through time and again. It is the Thanatos to the Eros of Cezanne's Provencalism. The summation of both--along with his deep relation to his own pictorial gods, such as Poussin--is in the paintings of bathers that Cezanne worked on...
The film ricochets through 50 years of Nixon's life; it suggests that he never outgrew a severe rural childhood or an attachment to his stern mother; it includes both a March of Time summation of his career and a scene in which the great man argues with his wife...
That's a load of bitter wisdom for a boy to carry. So the author lets Jozska's father, a con man and survivor, speak the summation. Blaming the entire German nation, this fellow says wryly, "would be too German ... so collective responsibility is probably a myth." Here we imagine...