Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jacobs was cited on the floor of the House of Representatives for making an important contribution to the Alliance for Progress. Jacobs is proud of the citation and seems to enjoy the publicity. But the public recognition can't distract him from his devotion to radio. He was the kind of boy who built crystal sets out of oatmeal boxes and rejoiced when be picked up a station in Pittsburgh. Regardless of what time he goes to bed, Jacobs does not need an alarm clock to wake himself up at 6:30 a.m. "I get on the radio...
...Congratulations on your Essay. Neither artistic blandishments nor attribution of "subcultural" status to homosexuality should distract us from the fact that such behavior remains basically a serious disorder...
Brecht divided Galileo into fourteen scenes, beginning with the man's first tinkerings with astronomy and ending with his completion of the Discorsi shortly before his death. The patchwork construction is meant to distract you from emotional involvement lest you miss the lesson of each scene. Happily, Brecht's design falls through, and tension does build...
...exercising all of her rueful, clownish charm as a bourgeoise matron with marriage problems. Neither beautiful nor clever, and inhibited by an unshakable Catholic conscience, Giulietta is wounded by the discovery that her husband (Mario Pisu) has a mistress. She consults a seer, seeks refuge in spiritualism, tries to distract herself by befriending an elegant trollop (Sandra Milo) next door. Meanwhile, she begins to live more and more in fantasy - images of abstract evil, dreams of sexual abandon, phantoms of childhood fears. Not until she at last loses her husband does Giulietta find herself and make peace, albeit rather arbitrarily...
Burnished Symbols. In a way, death was what the Finzi-Continis had always wanted; and it is Author Bassani's subtle achievement to have described their lives with compassion but without sentimentality. His style is graceful, disciplined, direct. Occasional Italicisms will distract American readers, and few of the characters are drawn in detail. But Bassani's principal concern is with mood and meaning, and his leisurely, Proustian sentences brush and burnish a world of unexpected symbols. Although the novel is about Jews, it is only incidentally about Jewishness; the Finzi-Continis' confrontation with Fascism is employed...