Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Fallows expects to return to journalism after Novermber 2 no matter who triumphs, he does not use the brevity of his tenure to sidestep inquiries about his passage from The Crimson to the Carter campaign. In a series of interviews last week, as he accompanied Carter in a swing...
Now Fallows translates this change of temperament into his writing, trying to blend but not resolve the personal and political, "on the one hand being sensitive about what's good in people...being willing to understand their human richness, while, on the other hand, you are still willing to say...
Later, Dersu goes to live with the Captain and his family in town. But he is gradually stifled. Kurosawa is not facile, and he does not hymn the natural man just to condemn the spiritual debilitations of modern life. Dersu Uzala takes place during the first decade of the century...
Most of the time, Joan Foster is the quietly unremarkable wife of a humorless student radical. In odd stolen hours, she plays mistress to an avant-garde artist who serves as a kind of latter-day Mad Hatter. From both husband and lover, Joan cleverly hides two secret shames: the...
Why the paucity of an intellectual culture in the South? Historically, according to W. J. Cash in his classic book, The Mind of the South, the causes are in the rural surroundings, which offered few stimulations; the strength of religion, which answered philosophical questions with prayers; and, most of all...