In his probing afterword to "Little Man — What Now?" Philip Brady ponders the question of why the book isn't better known today: "Enduring success is one thing, immediate impact is something different, and clearly the immediate impact of Fallada's novel was undeniable". Given our current economic circumstances, the book may have a second chance at impact and endurance.
We have to deal with the things both immediate and gone that have made us angry - and we have to understand that we cannot get ahead by hurting each other.
The country needs both things: immediate action on the sequester and a sound long-term fiscal strategy.
When I paint, I do it for myself, I want things to be immediate and legible, the last thing I want is for my painting to be too complicated to understand, see, live.
Part of the fascination with Ms. Fassihi's e-mail message may lie in its personal nature; it's one thing for a reporter to describe a country in anarchy, but quite another thing -- far more immediate and tactile -- for the same person to say she can't leave her hotel room for fear of being killed.
They existed to provide five things: immediate gratification, inspiration, convenience, taction (the ability to touch and try things on), along with the memory and delight of being somewhere.
Her subjects have included her young children depicted as wild things ("Immediate Family"), landscapes of her beloved Virginia ("Deep South") and vivid, raw images of her own body and that of her husband's ("Proud Flesh").
"They have time to work on things that are immediate and important, so it's really hard for a state agency that says 'We have no confirmations of cougars in our state' to actually spend time and money on it when it's not a pressing issue".
Everything that I loved about Nicolas Winding Refn's 2011 film, Drive, all the things that I found immediate and evocative - those are all the things that struck me as wrong-headed, self-indulgent and pretentious in his newest, already much-vilified Only God Forgives.
The technical skills do not need to be detailed and should rely on access to the right knowledge in the organisation – it's more akin to 'finance for the non-financial manager' than a specialism – an understanding of the basic lexicon of digital such as big data or cloud computing in the immediate, and things like 'wearables' (technologies worn close to the body) in the not too distant future.
