Word: author
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Centrist, was twice Premier in the Fourth Republic and adds another pro-European voice to the Cabinet. A brisk and practical politician, Pleven served in De Gaulle's immediate postwar Cabinets, but went his own way after the general quit office in 1948. He was a chief author of the European Defense Community scheme and thus forever afterward barred from any De Gaulle Cabinet. His appointment now is designed to still criticism of the government's heavy-handed manipulation of the courts, though the assignment is liable to bring him into conflict with a Gaullist minister...
...doctrine that lifted directors to their new eminence first appeared in the pages of the resolutely avant-garde French magazine Cahiers du Cinema. In January 1954, Truffaut, then a critic and aspiring film maker, wrote a prophetic article entitled "Politique des Auteurs" ("The Mark of the Author"). Its purpose: to show that celluloid could be just as prestigious as paper. Movies were not group art, he argued. The scenario, camera work and acting were all under the unifying force of the director -the author of a body of film work...
...most difficulty fitting their procrustean bed. His films are alike only in their lapidary craftsmanship and strong visual sense. At his best, Kubrick created America's finest antiwar movie, Paths of Glory. At his worst, in Lolita, he flattened Nabokov's Krafft-Ebing satire and missed the author's parody of motel Americana. With the innovative successes of Dr. Strangelove and 2001, he recouped much of his prestigé. Still, there remains some doubt as to whether Kubrick has retained his ability to create characters of psychological breadth and substance. His newest project-a life of Napoleon...
...attempt by blacks to construct a distinctively black theology has a strong this-worldly existentialist cast. "The idea of heaven is irrelevant for black theology," says Cone, the author of a recent book called Black Theology & Black Power. "The Christian cannot waste time contemplating the next world, if there is a next." One participant in the session, Preston N. Williams of Boston University, explained: "The black man cannot divorce theology from social action. Whites say, 'That's not theology at all.' The real question is who is going to define the norms of theology." Some Negro churchmen...
Among the Allied leaders, Chamberlain bears the brunt of the author's j'accuse. Mosley does not disagree with the political opponent who judged the Prime Minister only qualified to serve as "lord mayor of Birmingham in a bad year." In the witty image of Diplomat-Author Harold Nicolson, Chamberlain may have looked like a curate entering a pub for the first time, but he was sneaky enough, says Mosley, to trick Anthony Eden into resigning as Foreign Minister and, as late as the summer of 1939, to make fumbling secret overtures to the Germans without informing...