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... intellectual " meaning " for this film ( though it is scarcely above the level of a stag movie ) that any self- respecting intellectual could go see it with a clear conscience and a blithe spirit of analysis . Mr. Fiedler does it with ...
... intellectual " meaning " for this film ( though it is scarcely above the level of a stag movie ) that any self- respecting intellectual could go see it with a clear conscience and a blithe spirit of analysis . Mr. Fiedler does it with ...
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... intellectual audiences is by offering the possibility of mastering childish puz- zlement by the defenses of the adult intellectual . For example , most intellectuals have a good deal of curiosity . The reason psychologists give is that ...
... intellectual audiences is by offering the possibility of mastering childish puz- zlement by the defenses of the adult intellectual . For example , most intellectuals have a good deal of curiosity . The reason psychologists give is that ...
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... intellectual puzzles — and we do , because we need to feel that our watching has a " point " and , many intellectuals of the ' sixties would prefer , a purely intellectual rather than an emotional or moral " point . " The puzzling ...
... intellectual puzzles — and we do , because we need to feel that our watching has a " point " and , many intellectuals of the ' sixties would prefer , a purely intellectual rather than an emotional or moral " point . " The puzzling ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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