Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yearning and his overwrought emotional symbolizations. His little play sounds like Words worth rewriting Manfred. It is the funniest satire of its kind since Dickens' Two Transcendental Ladies in Martin Chuzzlewit ("Mind and matter glide swift into the vortex of immensity. Howls the sublime and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.") Trigorin, the writer, is corpulent with sensitivity. He is incapable of both love and brutality, the romantic gestures of pity and hatred. He is wildly popular, and decently agonized about it. He is closed off to the turmoil of the dilating implications of things...
...Arabs as a whole-who see themselves as fighting to exterminate a mortal enemy, to uphold an Arab nationalist ideal, and to rid their area of "Zionist imperialism" (and its American counterpart)-neutrality, and often objectivity, are despised...
Hope came on right away, and the fans went wild. He has come to represent everything that's perfect about America, the ideal citizen. Yes, Vietnam has been good to Bob. The first order of business was the presentation of a Paul Revere Bowl or something to Bob for being a great patriot. He got more of these before he left, and similar awards were given away more or less as party favors to those on the podium...
...Elaine" is a mannered portrait of a lady with classically abstracted features and gilt collar and background. It could be a painting of the sixteenth century. But there is a stylistically twentieth century figure off to one side, and a plastic coating makes the lady gleam-perfected, distant, and ideal...
...down with Ideas. Sanders, alas, has clearly read his Sartre. His hoods are given to observations like "Crime is the truth. Law is the hypocrisy." There is no sex in the usual sense, because the characters prefer to engage in whippings. It turns out that tape is not the ideal medium for dramatizing this kind of eroticism, but there is enough twaddle about the relationship between violent crime and perverted sex to make St. Genet set fire to his halo...