Word: masterworks
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...masterwork The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt argued that Hitler and Stalin used terror as a tool to fabricate a new kind of man devoid of individualism and self-respect, Didion correctly sees a similar phenomenon taking place in EI Salvador Indiscriminate, random killing deemphasize the value of human existence Murder no longer shocks Salvadorans; it is a natural part of life...
...declared in 1959 that the novel would "come to stand as one of the great events in man's literary and moral history," scarcely anybody seemed to believe him. Since then it has been principally Russian exiles and specialists who have persisted in treating Doctor Zhivago as a masterwork of 20th century fiction. For all the attention the book has received from American critics, Doctor Zhivago might be a novelization of the movie of the same name...
...choreographer than a director, since he claims he likes to set up situations in which the acting evolves spontaneously. Maybe he really does know what he's doing--maybe his vision is unfailing--but somehow there's always this nagging incompleteness in his movies. The confidence of a genuine masterwork seems to seep out of Five Easy Pieces, but it's almost impossible to tell why. He has an obsession with isolated, emotionally-distant characters, and he shows them with remarkable clarity. One wonders, though, if he's really exploring them. The King of Marvin Gardens might have been...
During the past two weeks, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca conceived and put together the latest rescue plan with the precision of a Swiss clockmaker piecing together a masterwork. Iacocca boldly asked every one of Chrysler's associates for another substantial financial concession to keep the company alive. The elements of the newest rescue package...
WALT WHITMAN was an American genius. He brought originality to an imitative literature, cutting and hewing poems out of the city streets and country ponds of a vast America. "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem," he said in the 1855 preface to his masterwork, Leaves of Grass. Never before had an American writer captured this relationship between the word and the state, the poem and the nation. Emerson wrote Whitman a few weeks after the publication of Leaves of Grass, saying he found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed...