Word: dwelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Pyongyang radio, more than 700 Russian and European satellite technicians are already working in North Korea. Pyongyang propagandists dwell every day upon the affairs of the Soviet set: "Soviet Engineer Vandalenko is tirelessly restoring the Kim Chaik ironworks . . . Engineer Uburov is in charge at the Supung power plant, which is fast rising from the rubble...
There are, however, some pleasanter pictures of the beings who dwell in this lost country. The Dalai Lama, aged 16 when this film was made, looks pretty much like any other teen-ager dressed up for a masquerade. The common people seem better than their betters. As they stir their hot-buttered tea or plow the skyey pastures with their dolorous yaks, or swarm to Lhasa for their pageants, their faces are warm with the comfortable joy of creatures at home in their world...
Malraux and many like-minded intellectuals, writes Onimus, try to substitute art for God. "Malraux finds in art the justification for existence . . . He cannot dwell in nothingness; the absurdity of it catches him by the throat . . . He seized upon art when it appeared to offer an escape toward heaven . . . For Malraux, [art] succeeds the gods; it takes over from a faltering religion . . . Modern man . . . stripped of faith and hope, surrounds himself with [masterpieces], those ghosts who have successfully triumphed over time . . . For modern man, as Malraux sees him, museums are no longer collections, they are sanctuaries where, in a world...
...theme of grim reality punctuates both the filming and the acting. Director Julien Duvivier lets his camera dwell at length upon the filth and vice of the Casbah. He delights in picturing squalid, old women sitting in doorways or sunning themselves upon the endless steps and terraces of the native quarter. Occasionally, however, the emotional implications of both setting and plot become cloying. A scene in which a fat hag tearfully recalls her past success on the stage turns maudlin, while the murder of an informer has all the qualities of an old time serial...
Beyound a Threat-Hope. President Eisenhower did not want to make a threat-even in retaliation-the major theme of his speech. He said that to dwell upon the possibility of atomic war would "be to confirm the hopeless finality of the belief that two atomic colossi are doomed malevolently to eye each other indefinitely across a trembling world...