Word: didacticism
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SIDDHARTHA is set in the India of 25 centuries ago, but it has the contemporary familiarity of a quickie weekend at Esalen. Hermann Hesse's novel has been adapted with stuporous devotion by Conrad Rooks, who in 1967 unleashed Chappaqua, a shambling phantasmagoria of the hallucinatory world of alcoholism...
Recent Finds. From this official attitude has come what must arguably be the most beautiful exhibition Europe has yet seen in the '70s: "Treasures of Chinese Art," a loan show of some 400 recent finds from the People's Republic, on view at the Petit Palais in Paris...
The strained pseudopoetic rhetoric and portentous declamatory style remind one of Maxwell Anderson scaling his molehills of dramatic verse. An intermittent sidebar monologue features an innocuous-looking Manson-family girl casually relating the horrors of the Sharon Tate murders with a lubriciously contented purr. Together with the repeated cue name...
But I won't tell you the full nature of the paradoxes, or how they are solved, and I wouldn't advise reading the story first: brilliant as the cinematography is, the film needs all the mystery it can muster to maintain interest. It's a film wrapped up in...
Brazil is three years into its most ambitious plan to teach adults to read and write. Since the program, called Mobral (Movimento Brasileiro de Alfabetizaçāo), started in 1970, more than 3,000,000 adults have achieved at least basic literacy; that number is expected to quintuple by...