Word: individualistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poetry, translated and commented on by Stanley Kunitz and Critic Max Hayward, Akhmatova's life probably never would have run smoothly. Although the original music is lost even in the best translation, enough of her emotional tones come through this excellent Englishing to suggest a tough individualist whose highly economical style was due not to reticence but a stubborn belief that she had distilled the truth and the reader could take it or leave...
Unlike Nora, a contemporary feminist realizes the larger dimensions of her rebellion. Unlike Nora, she is not alone in her struggle and not an individualist idealist. She has the force of a history of public outcry to fire her collective faith. And because of this, she can dismiss Nora's dilemma without too much agonizing...
...believes that an individual has extraordinary powers that can only keep on growing if he develops himself at all costs. Bach means all costs. This is a doctrine given considerable lip service in the U.S., which likes to remember itself as the land of the rugged individualist. But such counsel is rarely followed, in part because of sentimentality and fear of ridicule. One of the funnier episodes in Bach's life was the moment a little over two years ago when Captain Richard Bach quit the Iowa Air Guard ?and the weekend jet flying he loved ?rather than...
...consummate film craftsmanship to produce his final statement on the nature of young love. It's the film most typical of Bergman's early romanticism (nostalgic tinges re-appear in such darker masterworks as Shame or The Passion of Anna). Beyond Smiles itself, Bergman always epitomizes the searching individualist colliding against walls of spiritual disbelief, or the bonds of society which disrupt human happiness. A description of Simon himself, at times...
...require, as the plan says, that "the people of Maine feel free to submit personal interests to the common good." While none of the proposals is unprecedented-Oregon has put its entire Pacific shoreline in the public domain, for example, and many states encourage community corporations-Maine's individualist Yankees do not take kindly to infringements on their liberties...