Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Story of the Andes Survivors, Read inherited his Dostoyevskian themes as a gift. A remote plane crash, the compel ling temptation to cannibalism, all this extremity allowed him to make the most of his favorite question: How can a man manage to survive without being damned? Beside this bestselling documentary. Read's novels so far have seemed all too contrived. But there is courage along with foolhardiness here, seriousness as well as pretension. Over extended though he is, Read writes for the most part with grace and economy...
...come out of the discussion. If undergraduate education is to improve at Harvard, it will be necessary that faculty members be willing to spend at least half of their time teaching, and half of that time teaching undergraduates, as Rosovsky suggests. No task force report will be able to compel faculty members to devote time to undergraduates, but Rosovsky's message is a much-needed attempt to address questions of instruction that overshadow talk of requirements and curriculum...
...scope and power of creator and character--the self--which is central to all Beckett's work. It is not that Beckett lacks the linguistic talents of his friend Joyce, but that these talents are no longer tools for manipulating the established material of literature. Rather they compel the author to write; instead of being marshaled, they command. Just as Beckett's characters sense the stinking insistence of being when they least understand it and most want to leave it, his words, out of which these characters formed, continue to come with the same insistence...
Perhaps so, except that the central issue this year was not money but time off and jobs. In order to compel the automakers to hire more workers, the union asked that employees be granted an extra day off each month. Company Chairman Henry Ford II, however, considered adequate the 33 days off a year that the average Ford worker now gets. "You can't pay people for not working and have growth in the economy," he said early this month. In its eleventh-hour offer, the company proposed an elaborate scheme whereby employees could win up to five extra...
...which only goes to reinforce the fact that nobody cares more genuinely about movies than Kael. They move and compel her to weigh each nuance, to mull over each jarring image, and to track down every pop association like an amateur sociologist-sleuth. She even lifts and carries the torah for the whole creative tradition in her long, worried, and proscriptive essay on the film industry, "On the Future of the Movies." And when she's in top form, Kael merits the hackneyed testimonial, "she cares enough to be brilliant." Hopefully she will weather the hyperbolic fuss over film critics...