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...which, Truffaut states politely, "will no longer appear." Every Man for Himself and God Against All does recall Truffaut in the same way that a color-by-the-numbers painting recalls Cézanne. Based on the history of a young man who appeared in the Germany of the 1820s with no memory and no experience of the world, the movie is a clanking exposition of a theme Truffaut himself explored in The Wild Child (1970). Truffaut's film was full of compassion and intelligence, a scrupulous study of freedom and the sometimes questionable requirements of the "civilizing process...
...pick vintage years in this period, the early 1820s, "the era of good feelings," will serve as well as any. The quarrels with Europe were over or at least muted. Independence had survived its first trials. Yet even in that Arcadia there were dark corners. To think of how many died in childbirth or lived sickly lives, to think of diseases wrongly diagnosed or wrongly treated, is to recognize the importance of health in judging the well-being of a people. The nearer one gets to today the better health care gets...
Modern Greeks still like to refer to their country as the cradle of democracy, but in fact Greek politics has rarely reflected Attica's ancient heritage. Scarcely had Greece won its independence from the Turks in the 1820s when the infant republic ended in a presidential assassination. The great powers protecting the new nation promptly imposed an absolutist King from Bavaria. Ever since, Greece's political history has seesawed between short periods of volatile republicanism and longer ones of oppressive authoritarianism...
...wooded hills of eastern Tennessee, Baker is known to friends and kinfolk as Howard Henry, to distinguish him from his father, who was simply called Howard. The elder Baker served 13 years in Congress until his death in 1964. Since the early 1820s there have been Bakers in that part of Appalachia, where coal mining, lumbering, dairy farming - and poverty - are a way of life Young Baker was strongly influenced by his maternal grandmother, known as Mother Ladd, who succeeded her late husband in 1927 as sheriff of Roane County. She gained notoriety for cap turing two armed bootleggers singlehanded...
Indeed, the notion that man is born innocent and that evil resides in society got a vigorous workout in the America of the 1820s and '30s. Prisoners invariably claimed that they were victims of misunderstandings, cruel circumstances and broken homes. Mental illness, too, was ascribed to a civilization madly concerned with getting and spending. Thus, if society was responsible, its victims should be isolated from corrupting influences and drilled in the virtues of hard work and obedience. Keeping inmates untainted meant keeping them apart from one another as well as from society as a whole. Accordingly, under Pennsylvania...