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...Zhivago, a vast (710 pages), panoramic novel of life in Russia from 1903 to 1929. Feltrinelli's agent brought a manuscript to Italy, and a translation was made. Meanwhile the powerful Union of Soviet Writers got hold of the novel, decided that its "cumulative effect" was to depict the Bolshevik revolution "as if it were the great crime in Russian history." Extensive rewriting was "suggested...
...moody painter. His Composition in White grew out of a trip to Austria. "The snowcapped Austrian mountains reminded me of Canada," he explains. "For weeks I was obsessed by snow and winter. I finally painted this to get the obsession out of my system. I always try to depict nature as I see it." ¶ Dynasty (opposite), by Kenzo Okada, one of Japan's leading moderns, who now lives in Manhattan. Okada, who came to the U.S. in 1950 with a full-fledged Tokyo reputation, feels his work has become liberated in the U.S., now sells out his shows...
...individual efforts of the novelist. Therefore the film is a far less personal creation. The film as industry--a big business requiring large capital--leaves its mark as well. With the exception of The Grapes of Wrath, for instance, most labor films, (even the excellent On the Water-front) depict labor disorders as being caused by personal animosities and ambitions...
...Catholics who argue that it is good public relations for the church to show that priests and nuns are human, Brizzolara reports that "unfortunately, their humanity is all such movies can depict and thus give us only half a priest or half a nun . . . The best [Hollywood] can hope for is to show Father as a 'real Joe,' and Sister as a 'good egg,' naive, perhaps, but wisecracking, gay, dedicated-always the part, never the whole...
Ashton, who also directs the play, has taken the overworked Troilus and Cressida theme, retained the Trojan setting, and come up with two acts that purport to depict the horrors of war. By war, Ashton means War, and he has underscored the universality of his theme by a sometimes clever juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern...