Word: escapist
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...week revolutionaries from the Negro middle-class. Behind Carmichael, the leadership cult is pre-occupied with presenting an image of bitter coolness. SNCC has rejected intellectualism -- the notion that Negroes must obtain certain credentials and legitimacy from education to be meaningful to the Negro community -- as bourgeois and escapist...
This new collection of short stories is basically a tee-off from the second green, down-to-earth escapist fare. But it must not be dismissed too lightly. The mature Greene is never a mere Sunday writer; there is always an element of earnestness about his game. And in May We Borrow Your Husband?, he is still the consummate pro: his picture swing is smooth, his stroke is completely unmannered yet perfectly controlled, his style is at once artful and impeccable. Yet beneath all the skill lurks an unprofessional but engaging note of bittersweet poignancy...
...ponderous and heavy-handed when characterizing his social environment. Antonioni sketches his mod London in black-and-white values, as entirely worthless. He depicts the young people at the rock-and-roll club and the pot party as incapable of individual emotional reaction, responding only in groups to escapist stimuli and the newest hip symbols (the electric guitar handle). This damning of a culture en masse is suspect; in setting his hero against a background of complete sterility, Antonioni has taken the easy way out, avoiding the challenge of creating a more perceptive analysis of the generation with which...
...everyone knows, Brecht sought a theater of alienation which shocks the audience into constant awareness of social and moral problems. By using ritualized, non-naturalistic devices--slides and signs, self-consciously artificial musical numbers, characters addressing the audience directly--he blocked simple escapist identification with the characters on stage...
...escape. India today produces more movies than the U.S. Last year the nation's 4,500 movie theaters drew more than $100 million in box office receipts. Indians crowd the theaters, happily sitting through costume epics of three or more hours in length. Indian films are frankly escapist, and are divided into twelve categories ranging from "socials" that deal with city-country or caste themes to "myth-ologicals" that treat of Hindu legend in full color and dubbed voices (since the actors can't sing and the singers can't act). Sample lyric: "You are the Ganges...