Word: humanisme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In a recent Crimson editorial piece, it seemed as though the responsible man was a lonely, tragic individual who can only hope that chance gives him the opportunity to change the world. But a new and creative form of humanism, an inescapably globally social humanism of all men is being...
The literary result is Albert Corde, the latest and best of Bellow's old cogitators. Corde, a Chicago college dean, spends a great deal of time in an underheated Bucharest apartment waiting for his mother-in-law to die in a state hospital and mulling over the retreat of...
There he painted scenes of the Old West in a brawny and fluid style reminiscent of Thomas Hart Benton. As a sculptor he produced bronzes of cowboys, Indians, bucking horses and stampeding cattle. The casual eye is reminded of the work of Frederic Remington; the more discerning see the energy...
Cassavetes is at his saturnine best in this role, and Christine Lahti is fine as a more sympathetic M.D. Two other supporting performances, both offcast, are emblematic of the care with which Whose Life has been made. One is by Bob Balaban as Ken's attorney. This is the...
The paradox of Hans Werner Henze extends from his life to his art. A member of the progressive Darmstadt circle of composers after World War II, Henze broke decisively with the avant-garde in the mid-'50s and today sneers at the "utter boredom" of doctrinaire serialism. For all...