Word: bafflements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brian Keith's performance as the colonel Miss Taylor plays around with, is Reflections' strongest, perhaps because he plays the only obstensibly normal person in the film. Keith's bafflement after the death of his wife, his expressions of confused regret at the loss of a woman whom he betrayed every day and who was repelled by him, is honest and touching. Keith's character is a satisfying medium between the shrill simpleness of Miss Taylor and the obvious complexity of Brando, and he attracts most of the audience sympathy...
...sludgy limbo, out of life but not quite into death, "without the courage to end or the strength to go on." Nothing happens; nobody comes, nobody goes. Yet his plays (Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape) and novels (Malloy, Murphy) are metaphors of modern man's spiritual bafflement. "Waiting for Godot" has become a tagline for frustration...
...malaise, churchmen agree that the old Luther still speaks directly to many of their current concerns. Although theologians have trouble trying to translate justification by faith into contemporary terms-a discussion of the subject at a 1963 meeting of the Lutheran World Federation broke up in total bafflement-few Protestants are prepared to repudiate it. Yale's Pelikan insists that "there is some relevance to a thought whose entire concern is how to cope with guilt, anxiety and fear...
...province of the artist is not to reflect the bafflement of mankind but to show that order and beauty exist...
...with a voice like a stripped gear, who seems to have difficulty getting his plum-size eyes open; Zekial Marko (who also wrote both the book and screenplay) an engaging loser who would obviously do anything to anybody; Tammy Locke a fearsome moppet, capable of a look of existential bafflement when her father won't let her dry the dishes-and of cheerful chuckles when Daddy and his friends end up on the dock all covered with blood...