Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sum up what Bogdanovich has done to the novel in his film in one sentence, it would have to be a line uttered in absolute disgust about Daisy's flirtations and how they violate expected sex roles: "A man may know every one, men are welcome to that privilege." The implication is that Daisy may certainly not know everyone, and Bogdanovich sets out to exploit the underlying sexual currents of this statement. One of the mysterious qualities of James's novella is the question of Winterbourne's motives. At the very beginning there are intimations of an illicit relationship between...
...novella he suppressed the subtitle, claiming it was mere poetic artifice. But he also wrote then that readers might have mistaken the subtitle for a literal epithet to his "poor little heroine's" name, characterized by flatness. "Flatness indeed," wrote James, "one must have felt, was the very sum of her story; so that perhaps after all the attached epithet was meant but as a deprecation, addressed to the reader, of any great critical hope of stirring scenes." If the film had used the subtitle, its viewers would have been correct in just such an assumption. Bogdanovich can't offer...
...sum total of my values and opinions-conservative on some issues, liberal on others-has made me an "independent" voter, but such inconsistency has forced those around me to hang a "middle" label around my neck. There are people in the middle who have chosen (not defaulted into) the center of the political spectrum...
...sum, in a democracy, to be led is not a passive exercise; it takes work, and work by many people. As John Gardner put it: "Leadership in the U.S. is not a matter of scores of key individuals. It is a matter of tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of influential men and women [who] create the climate in which public opinion is formed...
...court-appointed attorneys-Francis Beige and Frank Armani -made their disclosure during the trial of Robert Garrow, 38, a Syracuse bakery worker accused of murdering a student, Philip Domblewski, 18, last sum mer when Domblewski was camping in the Adirondacks. As the lawyers told it, in August, shortly after Garrow was flushed out of the mountains and arrested by a state police posse, he told Beige that he had raped and killed a woman in an abandoned mine shaft. Some three weeks later, Beige found the mine-and the body of Susan Petz, 21. She had been missing since July...