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...Sundown, has in fact prompted many critics to suggest that what Preminger did for the Jew in Exodus and for the Catholic in The Cardinal--whatever that is--he is now doing for the American Negro. But viewed as a picture about race relations, Hurry Sundown is meaningless and banal. The great social dilemmas of the age have somehow passed Otto Preminger by the way, and his perceptions seem no longer relevant...
...Epic). In the first wave of the British invasion came the nattily dressed Dave Clark Five, now elder statesmen of rock 'n' roll. They seem to have a steady following for their hoarsely shouted banal laments-but then they deal with eternal problems, e.g., I been away too long; you don't want my lovin'; how can I tell you it's over...
...bulldozed away, as the past gives way to the present, a hybrid journalist is developing-the urban reporter-critic. Reporting, he keeps citizens abreast of what's going up and coming down, what city planners envision for the future. Criticizing, he serves as a civic conscience-denouncing the banal, calling for conservation of the historic or unique, pointing out that planners who think big sometimes err even bigger...
...essays on the search for "cultural identity." "We have no common ethnic, territorial or cultural past, as other nations have." Or, we are told, "Men need to recover their roots; not to sink into, but to grow out of." But Berman does not long remain at the level of banal declarations. He moves quickly through both his introductory remarks and the Jewish Museum; the major portion of his essay presents the fascinating, and often well-expressed, impact of the exhibit on Berman himself: "I felt the First Generation wrathfully pursuing me, as the Bronze Horseman pursued Pushkin's clerk Orogeny...
...eight), sees her as "a symbol of the mystery of youth, the instinct of the devil." Others call her "the Françoise Sagan of French singing," even though the song lyrics that she writes are hardly literary. "I never erase or start over," she says. They are mostly banal ballads for the yé-yé lovelorn...