Word: existing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everybody's Shakespeare. That title, for all its overtones of Lambist heresy, may still indicate something about what is going on in Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight), the latest and finest of the director's screen adaptations of Shakespearean texts. For Welles, the problem of license versus faithfulness does not exist as such. His Shakespeare films are informed by a single overriding concern: to make the text, both the words and the visual images implicit in them, wholly and completely his own, and thereby to make them ours...
While such a policy undoubtedly has strengthened the Communist Party, basically it has succeeded in its objective. Today the mass of the Spanish people, fearing renewed civil conflict, have become indifferent to politics. The traditional Spanish passion does not exist and Spain is a peaceful country whose revolutionary energy has been largely dissipated...
...genuine teacher. He is also a writer, a humanist and human, with brilliant eyes and fine hands with which he speaks. And he loves Spain and knows her as almost no other individual does. But this knowledge only makes him more acutely aware of the tensions and contradictions that exist within present-day Spain to be resolved only upon Franco's death...
...succession question, he believes, will most probably result in a restoration of the monarchy. Two pretenders to the throne exist, however--Don Carlos and his son Juan Carlos. The viability of the government that emerges, Ridruejo feels, will depend heavily on who is chosen...
EVEN public officials react with amusement or indifference to the "population problem" of Cambridge. The public is aware of the population problem as it exists in the streets of India; the bloated belly of a child is immediately called to mind. The ironic result of the mass media's concern with this issue is the creation of a sensationalism of suffering which renders the public unresponsive and insensitive to the less graphic conditions that exist in this city...