Word: warmth
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...argument should be clear by now. The Deans should be answered through letters couched in terms of warmth, joy, humor, perspective, and love. Rather than discussing sex at Harvard, we should discuss why Harvard is often joyless, pompous, cold, and frantic. The real scandal occurs not when a Harvard man seduces a 'Cliffie, but when he is ashamed to say "I love you" because it is not cool, and when he is afraid to express warmth because it is naive...
While he approached art as a writer, not as an expert, he marshaled an impressive array of abilities. He had good taste, an educated sensibility, an unusual breadth and warmth of appreciation, a scrupulous fairness. Recalling some of his critiques, his colleagues chose as one of their favorites a passage from a story on Painter John Chumley's work: "A painting of three children's swings, hanging empty from a leafless tree, is filled with yesterday's laughter. And the open window of an abandoned house fills one canvas with mystery, like a mouth that has much...
...this short tragedy is not an unqualified statement of the intense misogyny of Strindberg's youth: the duality of his evaluation of women, which led him alternatively from violent, Nietszchean disgust of females to a submissive craving for maternal warmth and comfort, receives a bit of the attention it will enjoy more fully in later plays. The Strindberg hatred for the feminist opportunist pervades The Link, but an appreciation of the woman as mother is not totally absent...
Francois Truffaut's French segment is the one almost common tale of the five, and it is told with delicacy if not warmth. A young factory worker falls in love with a girl he meets at concerts, but he never succeeds in transforming their relationship from one of copains to amants...
...sequence, directed by Marcel Ophuls, lacks some of the phychological subtleties of the others, but is one of the most effective. Basically the simple story of a playboy who unexpectedly falls in love with a girl after she bears his child, Ophul's segment almost conveys a spirit of warmth. His lovers laugh, argue, have secrets, and do foolish things. They also kiss, which is an act rarely included in this film of love...