Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...various not-so-natural values of the conventional world. Most obviously, there is the puritanism of the village pastor and others who try to prevent the young lovers from acting in accordance with their emotions. The ancient contrast between sophisticated city and simple country life also becomes an important element in the story, as does the struggle between father and son, between obedience and independence. The movie's ending is touching and appropriate, refraining as it does from giving an easy answer, or any answer at all, to the various moral questions that have been posed...
...spurn the full flowering of his genius) was solidly rooted in the artistic techniques of both Italy and northern Europe. His early teacher in Leiden had studied in Italy, there learned Caravaggio's trick of sharply contrasting light and shadow, to make light itself the most dramatic element in the picture. Rembrandt's painting, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, done when the artist was only 24, already shows both Rembrandt's love of Biblical subjects and the virtuoso control of light that gives his oils the intensity of molten gold...
Harvard's Tillich sees existentialism in three aspects. In part it is "an element in all important human thinking ... the attempt of man to describe his existence and its conflicts, the origin of these conflicts, and the anticipations of overcoming them; it is also a revolt against 19th century industrial society, against the world view in which man is nothing but a piece of an all-embracing mechanical reality"-physical, economic, sociological or psychological. The third aspect of existentialism, says Tillich, is the universal plaint of sensitive human beings in the 20th century. "It became the subject matter...
Even so, the existential attitude is normative for modern Protestantism. "Existentialism describes the human situation," says Tillich, "and as such it is a decisive element in present-day religious thinking and Christian theology...
...first production of the play had the requisite terror but lacked the element of pity. One could only loathe Eddie; and the production suffered further from Martin Ritt's faulty direction (especially in the last scene) and the disgracefully poor acting of Gloria Marlowe as the niece. But now the play has both pity and terror. The new portions, particularly in the doorstep scene between Eddie and his wife in act one, clarify the characters' motivations; and, though we still cannot condone Eddie, we do understand and pity...