Word: disillusional
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Like a Phoenix. Thus last week, for the 29th time since World War II, Italy lapsed into governmental crisis. On the surface, this crisis seemed a bad one, with no solution in sight. "Siamo pronti per i colonnelli" ("We are ready for the colonels"), cried a young Roman in disgust...
What is most impressive is not their secret motivation to have the System fail, but naive hope that it would succeed, and the extent of their depression and disillusion when their early reformist hopes were frustrated.
Praise & Disillusion. For a little while, a shadow fell on that sincerity. In preliminary drafts of the speech-and in the advance word given to congressional leaders and foreign powers including Britain, the Soviet Union and France-the 20th parallel cutoff point was explicitly stated. That specific was deleted from...
"Our major problem has been to disillusion people," Margolin said in an interview last weekend. "Most seniors still don't believe that they will be drafted after graduation. They think their draft boards are different--but 70 per cent of them are going to end up in Vietnam."
Hurry sundown by Otto Preminger. Bernard Shaw postulated that great playwrights by definition write great plays, and this is certainly the easiest way to defend Preminger's' Hurry Sundown, a difficult and dramatically unrewarding film. Like most of the great European directors who work in Hollywood, Preminger, takes little of...