Word: disillusional
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The local doctor Astrov (George C. Scott) yearns for a Russia that would not brutalize its peasants and ravish its land, but disillusion has sunk him in drink. He too falls half in love with Elena, and she with him, but she is too indolent and conventional to make an...
But the liberal, optimistic vision of the secular city and of the human race was at odds with a growing undercurrent of disillusion about man's ability to transform either himself or his world. A Teilhard de Chardin might confidently view man's physical and spiritual evolution in...
Time Lag. Outright forgeries can usually be detected by chemical analysis (use of pigments that had not been invented at the time of the original painting, electronic dating of the wood or canvas or clay). But even the most careful scholarship is uncertain. Says Horst W. Janson, chairman of the...
Rafelson's raw materials are first rate: sensitive acing (except for Julie Anne Robinson). Lazlo Kovacs's cinematography, a glib sharp-tongued script. But he Jumps them together without logic or order. The "no exit" situation would seem well suited to psychic drama. But Rafelson leaves unexplored Nicholson's talent...
The real importance of the scandals and the disillusion in The Great Bridge is as a back drop to the progress of the bridge itself. The bridge took 14 years and at least 20 lives to build, left Washington Roebling who succeeded his father as chief engineer, a lifelong invalid...