Word: seemingly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...important question is what this does to the building of a radical movement in this country. This type of violence does not seem to me to serve that end. But all the consequences of it are still unclear. I'm not concerned if the bombing was morally justified...
...book, just to remind the reader of what he's read. But the topic is fascinating, and Wills has ideas which never occurred to other writers. This book is the product of his disenchantment with America, and with its politics. Unfortunately, its length, and the fuzziness of its writing, seem to guarantee that it will not be widely read. Most of the people described in the book would benefit by reading...
...FIND FROST'S weaknesses less treacherous, actually, than the slow pace of Thompson's book. A shorter biography would be sufficient. Thompson seems to be compulsive about making his book complete, and thus reports scores of facts which seem to have no precedent, no consequence and usually, no interest. Perhaps Thompson is simply a businesslike writer: meticulous scholars should find no fault with his book, but for the average reader it is tedious and wearying. I have the feeling that many readers went through the book in the spirit of somewhat avaricious voyeurism, searching for expose. Otherwise I honestly cannot...
Already The Film School boasts students enrolled in all eight of its courses, students who seem to be using the school as a full-scale film program. Frances Gitter said, "We have no structured program as yet, but we're working on it. They [the students currently enrolled] will want a progression from where they are and we want to be able to give them that without getting stuffy and heavy and losing flexibility. We realize that it is easier said than done...
...Happiness of Others." Then Price has another try in a long rumination called "Waiting at Dachau." The story's psychologizing is murky, but it is less neat, less cautious; it will hold more emotion. Nevertheless, after a series of elegies for his parents and a dead friend that seem a bit too private for publication, Price returns to the parting of the lovers in a moody, troubled story, "Good and Bad Dreams," that is the best in the book. This time the lovers are husband and wife, and the parting is deadly; she slashes her arm with a razor...