Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ethical Teacher. In treating landscape as a paradigm of human fate and mood, Friedrich became one of the few major painters in the German romantic movement. The issue then, as posed by the philosopher Friedrich Schlegel, was straightforward: "Do not animals, stones, plants, stars and breezes also belong with mankind, which is merely a central meeting point of countless varied threads? Can mankind be understood divorced from nature, and is it so very different from other manifestations of nature?" This, the key question of the romantic sensibility then as of ecology now, was Friedrich's obsession. He pursued...
...surface, it doesn't sound especially serious: A new federal law that goes into effect next month will give students access to their previously confidential school files. But administrators and Faculty members are unanimous in their criticism of the law, which they say will, bring an end to frank, straightforward faculty recommendations for students...
...authors. Historians read popular American literature of the 1850s to learn about that era's social values and aspirations, and they read 19th century English novels to learn about 19th century English society. This literature is interpreted as subjective material--it has an historical validity despite its lack of straightforward objectivity. Nobody claims, for example, that London was exactly as Dickens described it, but most would agree that his novels give some valuable impressionistic descriptions of what life was like. And certainly the popularity of his novels shows something about the needs and interests of Dickens's reading public...
...development of Something Happened parallels the development of the novel. Beginning with a straightforward realistic style, Heller progresses into an elliptical series of dreams, flashbacks, news bulletins, and small pieces of philosophical graffiti; more contemporary modes. At several junctures the process of fiction becomes self-conscious, as when Slocum says he's afraid of becoming repetitive because everybody will ignore him. The novel itself becomes repetitive when memories come back again and again to Slocum, but always to underline what's most important to him: his missed opportunities in sexual conquest, his fear of the new, and of death...
...Best of all, the show eschews the nostalgic and moralizing narration that is the most obvious of the many trials The Waltons inflicts on viewers. Like the Laura Ingalls Wilder children's books from which the show derives, Little House genuinely seems to be striving for a simple, straightforward style, minimizing both melodramatic and sentimental excesses...