Word: trustingness
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The result is probably the most concentrated attack on this brand of religious Americana that has ever been filmed. Robert Mitchum may have been sinister as the "love-hate" preacher in The Night of the Hunter, but he was at least demented. Burt Lancaster may have been a tainted exploiter...
But the highest praise goes to Irina Kupchenko's Sonya. I remember at my first viewing of the film feeling that this Sonya was too young and pretty to be Chekhov's Sonya: I envisioned a cowish sort of girl--hardworking, trusting, basically provincial and unstimulating. The Sonya in the...
Sir / Re term-paper mills [March 27]: we wonder who should cast the first stone. Trusting students often discover to their dismay that the laboriously researched results of their term papers, seminar reports and theses may later turn up in the publications of their teachers, without as much as a...
Exactly who is Spiro Theodore Agnew and why is he saying all those terrible things about radic-libs? Jules Witcover, Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, addresses himself to these questions like a good newspaperman: patiently, in detail. His trusting assumption is that if a biographer provides a reader...
Critic Leslie Fiedler called it an "inhumanly virginal landscape," shuddered at the "atrocious magnificence of the mountains, the illimitable brute fact of the prairies." He was right. Montana is elusive, too vast to comprehend. It almost seems indecent for a land so big to have a population so small: 701...