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...perhaps simplistic to speak of Preminger as a determinist, yet running through his work are characters controlled by social and economic pressures, most distinctly by their immediate surroundings. In the early films (Fallen Angel, Angel Face), money, sexual abberation, and class distinction had much to do with the ultimate failure of Preminger's struggling protagonists. But increasingly, external dramatic pressures play a less important part--the determining factor becoming instead Preminger's own camera treatment of space, his cross-cutting techniques, his ultimate vision. No one seeing Skidoo can deny that the Mafia threat (central to the plot) is secondary...
...rather naive because it assumes that people alter power rather than that power alters people. It leads Brecht into his customary fallacy of assuming that power is good in the hands of workers and scientists and bad in the hands of statesmen, clerics and generals. As a historical determinist, Brecht curiously calls for a needless martyrdom. With or without Galileo's recantation, an age of science was inevitable...
Aranguren admitted that economically at least, Spain is making headway. "I am an economic determinist," he said. "Franco has encouraged tourism, foreign investment and the emigration of Spanish workers to other European countries. But I think that the time was right for these things. He doesn't deserve much credit for them...
...family resemblance. Like Boswell, White believes that he lives in a world run by people. "Historials insist that the inevitable is inevitable only after people have made it so," he says, and there are dozens of similar phrases in this book that tell you that Theodore White is no determinist, no sir. So his book, like Boswell's centers, on people. Yet he opens his lens to include the country that they...
...notebook. Hopefully, a few rare "kilo-cepts" and "multicepts"-cepts so basic they can be applied in many courses and to almost any historical period-may turn up among them, although Tenner has been able to identify only 17 kilocepts during his four years at Princeton. Examples: "A determinist creed induces not fatalism, but the will to assist in the accomplishment of some irresistible destiny"; "Obscure third-rate thinkers are historically more important than great thinkers...