Word: burghers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rhetorically, for obvious reasons, emphasis tends to center on strengths. On July 3, as the sun set over Governor's Island, we all heard Chief Justice Warren Burgher wax grandiloquent on his own family's immigrant history in the Swede towns of the Midwest. On September 4, we can look forward to hearing His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales muse on the origins of Harvardiana at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University...
...marveled at "the subtle Ingenia of men in foreign lands." This show gives Americans a good opportunity to return the compliment. Nuremberg was one of the great entrepreneurial centers of the late Middle Ages: innovative in production, much concerned with quality control, widely specialized, adventurous, rich and proud. Its burghers and nobles demanded art to match. The curators of this show have not stinted on what one might call the oo-ah side--the gold- and silverwork, the enamels and tiny carvings, the intricate chalices and aquamaniles that expressed the patrician sumptuousness of the city's religious and secular life...
...their power, ineffectual. In David Storey's Home (1970), John Osborne's West of Suez (1971) and Harold Pinter's No Man's Land (1975) and in the films The Heiress (1950) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), Richardson found his ideal role: as the haughty burgher whose tragic flaw lies in realizing too late that he is not quite a tragic figure. Though he never played Lear, the Shakespearean role that might have been written for him, Richardson found that doddering majesty as the politician in Storey's Early Days (1980). Wily but too innocent, flirting with...
...Bertolucci dares to provoke the same question about his film. If the verdict must be "ridiculous," it is because he has chosen not to challenge his audience with the guerrilla strategies of post-narrative cinema, but simply to befuddle. He seems determined not to choose between his sympathetic burgher and the seductions of Red Brigades chic - and thus deprives his story of its inherent drama. One would welcome a point of view here. After all, propaganda have rewards...
...will not rejoice that the hour of hoarse spellbinders has at length passed? Wholesale tilting against windmills is over. Campaign literature can now light the first winter fires; and the much-shouted-at burgher can return to straphanging and the comics. Best of all, the tumult has availed but little. Forty-five per cent of the voters will vote as their grandfathers did, 45 per cent will vote as their husbands dictate, and the other misled 10 per cent will vote intelligently. Yet it is those few who will make of today another interesting episode in the drama of American...