Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fantasy hero does not reject him -Humphrey Bogart. Bogey (Jerry Lacy) coaches him. Result: he ends up in bed with his best friend's wife. More guilt, more self-recrimination. Too much more of the same, perhaps, for the play does not properly progress along with the evening. However, it is amusement enough to have Woody Allen's kooky angle of vision, his nimble jokes and his woefully unconfident presence...
Untouched by Guilt. In graphics, Munch was almost compelled to concentrate on one or at the most two aspects of his obsessive Eve. As a result, he often gained a depth totally lacking in larger group portraits of the three women. His sensuous 1895 Madonna captures a strangely melancholy bacchante, in the throes of some primeval ecstasy, clearly his "woman of lust." In Ashes (1889), she appears again, a wanton totally untouched by the guilt that overwhelms her partner-yet at the same time electrified by some outside, elemental force...
...precision and no depth. And worst of all, there is nothing new. These same liberal journalists, who feel such horror over 1968 and so much desire to do something, do not have the slightest chance of doing anything, chained to the institutions they write about by their own guilt...
...first thing for them to do is to admit they have very little power to stop assassinations and riots, or even to elect presidents--for this is the case, even if they do learn about the news first. That admission will free them from their guilt, make them work harder at finding solutions that may even divide (which is the solution of pluralism anyway...
This freedom from guilt and from responsibility is so necessary to a journalist. Today, he is simply publicizing someone else's nightmare. When the day comes, he will write: "Gestapo officials estimated today that 346 detainees were exterminated by the state because of crimes . . . " He will sit down and write it, because he has no values. He is afraid to have them because he is afraid of a power that he does not have...