Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inevitably raises comparisons with Scenes from a Marriage. But to group the two together, as some critics have done, is like terming Mrs. Dalloway and Pride and Prejudice similar works because each portrays a female as she relates to the people around her. Just as the stylistic innovations of Virginia Woolf's study make it part of a different century and a different sensibility from Jane Austen's traditional novel, so Tanner's film, with its ubiquitous symbolism and its disruption of the conventional rules of narrative, occupies a cinematic universe distinct from Bergman's. Scenes from a Marriage...
...method is the close--sometimes too close--analysis of prose texts of some 50 female authors. Her critical eye scans the writings of women ranging in talent from Ellen Glasgow to Virginia Woolf, in commitment from diarist Arvazine Cooper to Simone de Beauvoir, and in vision from the inventor of Ma Kettle to the creator of Martha Quest...
...Virginia Woolf was upset with the way women seemed only to write from anger. But, as Spacks points out, anger is their strength, the energy fueling the female imagination. Too much of this fuel can cause a backfire, of course, and Spacks finds fault with Kate Millett for this reason. Indeed, those who enjoyed the rage in Millett's writing may be disappointed with Spacks's detached style...
...Saigon's Central Post Office, crowds clawed their way toward the telegram counter from 8 a.m. until the curfew at 8 p.m. Cable traffic quadrupled to 20,000 messages as the cries for help went out round the world. One man in West Virginia got a typical plea couched in garbled but earnest English: "Please send Red Cross to U.S. embassy in Saigon to help me process paper as a fianc?...
...philosophy, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia, a disquisition upon just how and why that government is best which governs least. In poetry, Marilyn Hacker's Presentation Piece; in biography, Richard B. Sewall's The Life of Emily Dickinson; in children's books, Virginia Hamilton's M.C. Higgins, the Great, a story about growing up black in the Cumberland Mountains. Science and translation offered a contrast between trouble of the psyche and of the soul: Silvano Arieti's Interpretations of Schizophrenia and the Anthony Kerrigan translation of Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno...