Word: culpa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reduces him to a childlike condition as he plaintively cries out for "Daddy." This particular sequence is inserted to illustrate what the Arican's call the "relations instinct of man," an instinct which corresponds to the individual's relationship with the father. Hanser makes generous use of similar mea culpa stories to demonstrate the impact of the 40-day Arica session on the trainees and this footage includes all the high points of the documentary...
...works of most gifted writers, Pinero's script has the mark of a genuine talent that needs polish. Though the morality parable in the film points to a considerable amount of insight and sensitivity, the motifs are at times carried out in a clumsy fashion. Short Eyes's mea culpa about his perverse affinity for young girls is riddled with cliches, and Davison's acting in the title role approaches the pedestrian throughout the narrative, making the character look like just another wimp with a kinky habit...
...political observers concede the leftists a better than even chance of gaining control of the National Assembly. To map a new political strategy, Giscard gathered his troops last week in a rare full session of the Council of Ministers. Reported one government aide: "It was a kind of mea culpa session. We admitted our errors." Some Cabinet members may be forced to pay for these errors with their seats, for a government shake-up is expected...
Celine composed Mea Culpa after touring Russia in 1936. The tract castigates the government that had invited him; it is a frenzied denunciation of the Soviet system's accomplishments, goals and aspirations. He appends a peculiarly personal tag to an ostensibly social message, but then, Celine typically let instinct hold sway over his world-view. He scorned dispassionate philosophy. Instinct tends to be an irrational, solipsistic faculty, and Celine's surrender to it poisoned his literary reputation...
...writer's anti-communist rhetoric was motivated less by reason than by sheer emotion and petty frustration. Mea Culpa, for example, was partly a virulent response to the rejection of Celine's script for a ballet by the Marinski Theater in Leningrad, although his failure as a choreographer and scenarist never enters into the pamphlet. A similar flopped attempt at film writing in Hollywood set his anti-semitism ludicrously into gear: "The Hollywood Jews ... know what a pretty girl is. Ah Goldwyn Mayer! I would have given ten years of my life to sit for one moment in their armchairs...