Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really want to hear about it, I respectfully submit that Holden Caulfield is not "pushing 40" for the same reason that Hamlet is not pushing 400. Both of these "mixed-up kids" have something to say to all ages, as evidenced by their up." faithful following; they will never "grow EDWARD MC INTYRE De Kalb...
There is, of course, something grimily banal and automatic about many of the racial stereotypes that salt the language. Yet sometimes they add a bit of savor. Are "French leave" and "Indian giver" to be expurgated? And what Bowdler at a performance of Hamlet will rise in protest when Horatio says, "He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice"? Should that be "Polish persons...
MORE THAN Hamlet and more than Lear, Macbeth and the movies are made for each other. Of the great Shakespearean tragedies it is the darkest, the bloodiest, the most physical and most unearthly. Macbeth has everything--slaughter, madness, treachery, revenge, ghosts and witches, and at one time or another, Griffith, Welles and Kurosawa have each taken a turn at its adaption. It is an invitation to extravagance...
...Macbeth is present on screen, silent and pensive, while the appropriate speech is read over the sound track. The result is the creation of a melancholy and self-conscious character, and with this one peculiar mannerism, Polanski manages to turn his Macbeth from unthinking warrior into a brooding, almost Hamlet-like figure...
...past underrated the strength of the Viet Cong and have ascribed to the Saigon Government a popularity which had as little basis in fact as that which the critics attributed to the NLF. They have bolstered their case with statistics on kill rates, infiltration rates, chieu hoi (defection) rates, hamlet pacification categories and voting turnouts. These figures may be reasonably accurate but they are also often irrelevant to the conclusions which they are adduced to support. At times key figures in the Administration have made statements which at least seemed to predict the imminent collapse of the Viet Cong...