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...crunch of politics since then, the President and the Congressman have ceased to be friends, but O'Neill knew him long enough to offer an insight into his personality that he feels may partially explain Watergate. Because he is such a loner, suggests O'Neill, the President does not do enough personal assessing of the men being considered for his staff, taking them on the judgment of others. What is more, says O'Neill, "Nixon is well briefed-but he's briefed the way his people think he wants to be briefed...
Yasujiro Ouzu's Autumn Afternoon (sometimes titled The Taste of Mackerel) is, quite, simply, a masterpiece. Its muted color and rigorously simple camerawork are consistently a joy to watch, and its emotional insight into post-war Japan is consistently moving. Little more could be said without delving into the intricate simplicity of this wonderful film...
...your article pointed out, Greeley very successfully steers a well-balanced via media between the Berrigans on the left and the Catholic traditionalist movement on the right. He has the wisdom of a Cardinal Newman, the Irish wit of a Peter Finley Dunne, and the insight of an Americanized G.K. Chesterton...
...difference between the lucid gray washes and quick flecks of ink with which the painter Chii-jan, at the end of the 10th century, painted a Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountain, and the clumsy spatterings that often declare "spontaneity" in the West. It is partly a difference of insight -Chii-jan's mountain, breathed into serenely vertical form, layer by stratified layer, is as mysterious in its allusions to geological time as any Leonardo landscape. It is also a difference of discipline. The wen-jen served no apprenticeship, and the idea of being "professional" painters would have appalled...
...Neill wrote this play as a form of absolution for his brother. As with Long Day's Journey into Night, it was another attempt "to make peace with my dead," to lift the curse of the O'Neill family through the transfiguring insight and purgation of drama. Quintero has beautifully orchestrated the themes of sin, remorse, guilt, self-damnation and death that haunted the profoundly per/ turbed spirit of O'Neill...