Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support some of it--but the back separatist fantasy of self sufficiency has outlived even its cathartic utility. The sooner black students at white colleges end this game of "putt'n on the man"--with the twisted result of also putting on themselves--the sooner blacks as a whole can move toward fuller mobility in American life...
...feel I've become a lot wiser with my experience," he noted. "I'm aware now of the game situation as a whole rather than a chance for personal success. Your're only as good s your team, and if the hole is there, I feel I have the ablility to get through...
THERE was great joy in Mudville when Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp announced in August 1976 that Volkswagen would locate its first major U.S. assembly plant in his state. There was joy, first, because the VW decision bucked a trend of industrial exodus from pennsylvania and the whole Graybelt (the declining Northeast corridor), an exodus brought on by the antiquation of the area's facilities, physical constraints on expansion, the relatively high tax load and union wages. There was joy, second, because Pennsylvania had beaten out Ohio in the VW selection process...
...this direction reflects that the English title, also, is a bit too mellifluous and easy and that the exquisite photography of interior scenes framed and lit like Vermeer's paintings shows little more than professionalism. The result, though the film is by no means unsuccessful as a whole, is that the actors tremble more than the audience. Passionate gloom haunted Bergman's earlier works, but professional gloom is what is visible in Autumn Sonata...
...tricks memory plays are usually flattering. But one of the surprises to be found in The Stories of John Cheever is that the stories are almost always better than people remember. Never before has it been possible to see so much of his short work so steadily and so whole. Never before has the received notion of a "typical" Cheever story-a satire on suburbia, based on fading Protestant morality -seemed further from the more complex and entertaining truth. This massive retrospective of 61 stories (selected by Cheever) is not only splendid from beginning to end paper; it charts...