Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thrillers, we have Lang's The Big Heat with its articulate vision of urban corruption and the need to fight evil, or Nicholas Ray's Party Girl and the fascinating conflicts between man and a hostile environment. Hitchcock's commercial suspense thrillers discuss serious questions of the nature of guilt and redemption; even Hawks's funniest "screwball" comedies treat with equal gravity the need for self-respect in an emasculating world...
...trouble with Nixon and Humphrey is that they may be forever tarred by their identification with policies and decades blamed for the current mess. They are suffering form a rather logical--if unfair--guilt by association. But the apparent demand for newness and coherence, reflected in the apathy toward the front-runners and frenzy over the dark-horses, may be an intolerable burden for any of the candidates. That is because the issues which are the guts of the national discontent are simply not susceptible--in any serious sense--to the kind of simplistic critical discussion going on today...
...ORIGINAL SIN. The concept that every human inherits Adam's guilt has increasingly been challenged by a counterview: "original sin" is man's inborn weakness, but the only sins for which a man can be held accountable are those committed of his own free will. Not so, said Paul: "We believe that in Adam all have sinned." The Pope specifically reaffirmed a pronouncement by the Council of Trent, which maintained that original sin is transmitted "not by imitation but by propagation...
With a celebrated conscience that writhed with guilt beside the swimming pool, Hollywood writers sang a song-of social significance. The loner of the '30s film-Gary Cooper, Gary Grant, Jimmy Stewart-always triumphed against Big Money, amid settings of dreamlike luxury, cluttered with butlers, white pianos and canopied beds. Like animated editorial cartoons, their opposition was always a vested-and usually watch-chained-interest on the order of Edward Arnold. The heroine-Barbara Stanwyck or Jean Arthur-spoke with a catch in her throat that accented her vulnerability. But she had a whim of iron, and when...
...originally created in the image of God, Maitland is disturbed and resentful of his being remade in the image of the computer. He is outraged that the soothsayers of scientific progress seem to be sundering the old blood ties that linked man to man. Maitland envies the young their guilt-free grace and cool; yet he lashes out against a generation-including his own icily indifferent daughter-that may have self-protectively guarded itself from feeling any emotion in depth...