Word: demonizations
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...everything from college admissions to science scholarships. Protesting that schools are being forced to teach just for the tests, a committee of top school administrators last month called for a nationwide revolt: "Local school systems should refuse to participate in nationally sponsored tests unless those tests can be demon strated to have value commensurate with the effort, money, time and emotional strain involved." The controversy illustrates...
...song. But Ireland's Thomas Kinsella, a 33-year-old clerk in the Civil Service, who scribbles verses in his spare time, is an exciting exception: a lyric poet in a didactic age. His words are modern but his music is as old as Celtic eloquence. When the demon is on him, Kinsella sings with a wild Irish sweetness, as when he writes of love...
...possible; evil like a serpent glides unseen beneath each gliding sentence. In the film, necessarily, the spectral prose is replaced by spooky images and scary noises. Some of them are eerily effective: Sheffield Park, the gorgeously rotting old Georgian mansion in which the film was mostly made, is a demon's dream house, and Director Jack (Room at the Top} Clayton, sensitively seconded by Cameraman Freddie Frances, has filled every coign and corridor with a dangerous, intelligent darkness. Moreover, the main performances are most capably carried off. Actress Kerr, with steely control, tunes herself like a violin string...
...devil dispatches him to the surface to relieve the girl of her virtue. The don is accompanied by his manservant, Pablo, and an assistant demon to keep everyone in line. They contrive to meet the vicar, who introduces them to his wife and daughter. Pablo immediately seduces the vicar's wife, and Don Juan begins on the daughter. The great lover--whom Bergman has made the personification of the "greasy, plastered-down look"--finds, however, that the girl will not be seduced. Instead she offers to give herself to him out of pity. In the end he falls hopelessly...
Museum Celebrity. The rest of Ishi's life partly atoned for his early hardships. Treated kindly by the people of Oroville, he became a brief celebrity, and soon Anthropologist Thomas T. Waterman of the University of California took him to San Francisco in the "white man's demon," a railroad train, and gave him comfortable quarters in a museum endowed by Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph Hearst...