Word: true
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Children of Paradise. A true epic, deeply compelling, visually unforgettable. Marcel Carne's masterpiece is set in eighteenth-century France, among the clowns, thieves, actors, pickpockets and peasants. It's impossible to do justice to this film in a mere paragraph, this story of three artists (an actor, a mime, and a murderer) who love the same woman, and must cope with their passion and jealousy in startlingly different ways. Carne's characters revel in theatrics; illusion and reality smash into each other, driving each man to the very brink of his art, to the terrifying edge of truth. Jean...
...Love" is of course another of those embarrassing words, perhaps a word more embarrassing even than "morality"... It has, nonetheless, a firm, hard-headed sense that names the single quality without which true art cannot exist... We read or listen to or look at works of art in the hope of experiencing our highest, most selfless emotion, either to reach a sublime communication with the maker of the work, sharing his affirmations as common lovers do, or to find, in works of literature, characters we love as we do real people...
...Gardner's organization is baffling, at least his style is endearing. The sense of mythic wonder that fills his books Grendel and Jason and Medea is present here in the form of vignettes and metaphors; and even when he rattles on about the good and the true, Gardner never pontificates, never becomes self-righteous. Even when what he says sounds like it would suit a preacher among the unbaptized, his manner remains that of the elderly raconteur, sitting by the fire with a mug of ale and a pipe...
...Both allegations are true," says Edward T. Wilcox, director of the General Education program and, in his words, "utility infielder" for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "Both allegations are true in the following sense: Junior faculty members are on the beginning of a death run. They have five years, and they have an inordinate number of things to do in a short time--they must get the book published, they do tend to be given the larger undergraduate courses, they perform a number of duties...
When Gary Miner, a marine-supply company manager, entered Las Vegas' Sunrise Hospital for heart treatment, he hardly expected that he would come away with an all-expenses-paid vacation to Hawaii. Overcrowded on weekdays and underused on weekends, Sunrise is solving its problem in true Las Vegas fashion: a lottery for all those who agree to enter the hospital on weekends, with a weekly prize of a $4,000 vacation. Since the game was started 14 months ago, admissions have jumped by 60%, to about 85 each weekend. The hospital estimates that this brings a $2.5 million increase...