Word: echt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trying for Brecht but never being echt, the film is only a procession of skits, songs, dialogues and newsreels. The lack of story or order need not have been fatal; but the movie is inept even as psychodrama-or as pacifist propaganda. A Maoist girl (Glenda Jackson) quotes endlessly from the Chairman: "A revolution is an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." Then she avows, with straight face: "I believe in China's violent revolution, but I couldn't kick a nun." Sick jokes abound: "Saigon is the only city in the world where garbage...
...group pared itself down even further, metamorphosing into a chamber wind ensemble. Unlike some other musical organizations, the Band can afford to do this, blessed as it is with a plethora of excellent soloists. In their hands the suite was a seductive brew of biting sarcasm and nostalgia - echt...
...crib in New Orleans to Harvard and Oxford, and back to the civil rights battlegrounds of the South. Her white characters, including a college cutup named Sudsy Sutherland and a heavy called OP Clete, seem to derive more from The Hardy Boys than from life; her Negro dialect is echt Amos 'n' Andy...
Burly Charisma. More disquieting to thoughtful Germans was Strauss's speech at the C.S.U. convention in which he expounded his own brand of echt Deutsch nationalism. Comparing the recent five-year extension of the statute of limitations for Nazi war criminals with the "thousands of murdered and tens of thousands of abducted" Germans on the Eastern front after World War II, he cried: "The misdeeds of Hitler's myrmidons were committed in concentration camps, which most Germans had only heard of by rumor, while in Czechoslovakia and Serbia, the torture, killing and burning alive of Germans...
...sundry other subjects of similar import and relevance to modern existence. The tone is radical and very youthful (although not doctrinaire in any way--probably the nearest thing to a party label that could be pinned on Messrs. Miller et al. would be Far Out Liberal); the humor is echt British, but not unpleasantly so: an ingenious mixture of the ridiculous, the outrageous, the scathing, and the genial...