Word: self
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Rudolf Forster plays Macheath with perfect self-satiric detachment and ingratiating charm, and Carola Neher manages Polly's changing character very subtly. Despite my regrets about the movie's confusion both in purpose and details, I found it delightful. It captures the bitter, ironic, and warm humor of the original...
...warned that this self-criticism however, should not take the form of self-deprecation, as much of it has in the past...
...Ashby Commission's proposal would be a self-sufficient Nigerian secondary school system by 1970. Nigeria would send its natives abroad to be trained for high school teaching at the rate of 600 a year for seven years. By 1966, American-and British-educated Nigerians would be returning to their country in fairly large numbers, and the need for imported instructors would steadily decrease...
...would make it easier for us to develop from an "existentialist" society into a "future-directed" one. Scientists, who have a sense of the future by virtue of the changing, historical character of their disciplines, can provide an antidote to our "existentialist," present-centered thinking. We are, Snow feels, self-satisfied and unmindful of the starving other two-thirds of the human race. We should make it a goal of our drifting society to feed these people. Such a goal would require planning ahead. Since scientists are more apt to think in terms of the future ("they have a sense...
Future Novel. Author Kaye seems a little self-conscious about his aims-the setting up of organic v. organization man, authentic v. inauthentic life. As a neo-pagan body cultist, he is forced to deny the claims of mind and spirit and reduce the variety of human relationships to that of hunter and prey. What Author Kaye has to offer that is new is not his message but his fictional mode. The realistic novel is gradually going bankrupt. It has mapped out the geography of the environment from battlefront to suburban home front from Main Street to Madison Avenue...