Word: timeless
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...incapable of any genuine or independent thought. When I argue in favor of social programs, I am dismissed as a "limousine liberal" who has a knee-jerk reaction to the poor that is steeped in class guilt. But when I say I believe that some works of literature are timeless classics, I am dismissed as typically conservative, classist, and ethnocentric. Any substantive arguments I make remain unaddressed...
...Final Club takes a potentially trivial topic and uses it to address the timeless questions of literature. Wolff also employs an engaging style and creative approach to ground those important questions in everyday experience. And after all, Wolff's highly contrived world is not so far removed from reality...
...Jakes is an excellent film, easily the best of the summer releases. Like every truly great film, it is an insightful commentary on the human condition. The power of the past, and how the commitments made their carry a timeless moral weight, is the subject of the film's intelligent inquiry. Any viewer, especially one with a thoughtful appreciation of the complexities of Chinatown, cannot help but be impressed with Nicholson's The Two Jakes...
...same pictorial space, essentially that of a collage, with those of an equally intense longing for stability and wholeness. It is a singularly moving image because it speaks so frankly of multiple desires, declaring how the restless archmodernist was also immersed in Mediterranean antiquity and the fiction of timeless art. And yet its nostalgia is part of its modernity...
...Timeless and all embracing as Shakespeare seems, he sometimes shows himself to be, unmistakably and unattractively, a man of his times. The Merchant of Venice is so bluntly anti-Semitic that most modern directors infuse their staging with irony, distorting the play into a covert dissent against bigotry. Just as problematic is The Taming of the Shrew, which treats women as economic or sexual prizes and delights in detailing how one husband breaks his wife's spirit through starvation, humiliation, irrationality and hints of violence. Most contemporary renditions warp the play into a feminist satire...