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...sports and the pugnacious attitude that allowed him to become a championship golfer in his own right, added a certain lovable but disarming, and at times boorish, intensity to his personality. The passion that infuses all of Darwin's writings can perhaps best be traced to Ryde's insight that "every game he watched or took part in assumed the proportions of an heroic encounter...
Film biographies tend to fall victim to a similar paradox. Ideally, a film biography should be historically accurate, entertaining, and provide some critical insight into its subject. There is an obvious tension between these three elements, and few directors and screenwriters are able to achieve the delicate, necessary dynamic. Indeed, most directors opt for one of the goals--usually that of producing an entertaining film--and address the other two only cursorily, if at all; while entertaining, the results of such efforts are little more than loosely-based fictional treatments. Diana Ross was wonderful to watch and hear in Lady...
...depth of insight that Roots inspired was always within these men -usually shown only in small asides or jokes. Roots brought it all up front...
...those who face them most directly. Here is not an objective study in the statistical sense of the term, for Howe has not collated material from a representative cross-section. But she points out that people are not ciphers, and her approach offers another, more personal kind of insight. And her book does not pretend to resolve anything, to give all the answers. Despite its soft pink over, the volume is meant to make its readers uncomfortable. It leaves one with conflicting impressions, dispelling some of the myths that many feminists and statisticians would have one believe. For example...
...people via translations and secondary works alone? Journalists, politicians, and high school teachers need only basic familiarity with their subjects; hence, interpreters, translations, and secondary works can adequately serve their purposes. But scholars, specialists in various field, and university teachers who wish to acquire and transmit knowledge and deeper insight into the nature of their subjects have no alternative but to master the languages relevant to their work. If anyone at Harvard every wishes to take up the study of any aspect of Africa seriously, he/she has no alternative but to start focussing on the study of the languages...