Word: humanisme
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Osip Mandelstam, one of modern Russia's best poets, was touched with such divine madness. Born in 1891, he became an Acmeist, one of a group of poets who reacted against the excess vagaries of the Symbolists by celebrating the palpability of things in clear, earthy language. Although the...
Scorpio had often found himself troubled about Aquarius' novels, however. What visions of damnation, for instance, smoked in Aquarius' head when in The Deer Park he had Marion the pimp say, "No one ever loved anyone except for the rare bird, and the rare bird loved an idea...
The effect that humanism had on angels (in art, at least) was to stress what the creatures had in common with man. Before angels slid down the ramp of sentimentality at whose bottom they now lie, a perfect balance between their human and spiritual aspects was achieved by, among others...
Agathon was once a handsome and ambitious academic-political young man, an Archaic Period Kissinger to the John Mitchell of Lycurgus, the famous lawgiver who recast the constitution of Sparta in a fierce authoritarian mold. Now Agathon is a drunken old bum. In between, he has fought a battle disguised...
Bunuel's Tristana, which stars Catherine Dencuve, closed the Festival. The story is reminiscent of Viridinana: a beautiful young girl dressed in black enters the home of her guardian (Fernando Rey, who also played the uncle in Viridiana ); she becomes his mistress, then his wife; she destroys him. Loss of...