Word: authoritarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took form in the 1880s, when the first waves of midwestern farmers arrived by the trainload. What they sought in L.A. was not urbanity but a continuation of their dispersed, self-reliant way of life. Thus, Banham says, "Los Angeles is the Middle West raised to the flashpoint, the authoritarian dogmas of the Bible Belt and the perennial revolt against them colliding at critical mass under the palm trees. Out of it comes a cultural situation where only the extreme is normal." To reinforce that pattern, Hollywood bloomed in the 1920s, adding a permanent "population of genius, neurosis, skill, charlatanry...
...nations Agnew will visit during the trip abroad, his third since taking office, have, in the main, authoritarian governments. Most have no pressing problems with the U.S., or great influence in matters of international urgency. Only in South Korea, his first official stop, where Agnew last week represented President Nixon at the third inauguration of President Chung Hee Park, was there even notable ceremonial justification for his presence...
...always so disdainful of authoritarian belief. As a poor Brahman in India, he was rigidly versed in orthodox Hindu observance. His father was not only a devout Brahman but an ardent Theosophist as well. When Krishnamurti was only 14 and already a budding mystic, he came to the attention of Annie Besant, onetime intimate of Shaw and then head of the Theosophical Society.* She adopted the young Indian and proclaimed him the incarnation, or avatar, of the "World Teacher," the divine spirit that in Hindu mythology periodically takes human form (as in Buddha) to lead men to truth. She sent...
...first feature film-to be shown publicly for the first time tonight-Kevin Burke attacks the authoritarian cinema and seeks a new relation between people and their images by sustaining a consciousness of filmmaking as just another life-process. Available Light restates the problem posed by Vertov in new language, exploiting a melange of sophisticated techniques-surfaces of incredible richness and variety (shot by Ralph Thanhauser), lighting of immaculate control-in order to demystify their manipulations and to dramatize their limitations in creating recreating livable meaning. From the very first image-a Mobil Oil sign, the ultimate plastic and reified...
...insight to hire John Cranko and give him his head in 1961. Cranko started by firing half the dispirited little company he inherited, then went shopping all over the world for incipient talent to train. He also began establishing procedures which are, in the customarily authoritarian world of classical ballet, curiously family-like and informal. Deliberately, Cranko keeps no office of his own; instead he conducts daily gab sessions at the theater canteen where, over humdrum food and endless cups of coffee, he and his young dancers, drawn from 20 different countries, exchange ideas. The director encourages them to plan...