Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Panofsky denied this, asserting that, "not 'til 1615 was Mithras' classical role really rediscovered. Even the Renaissance had no idea of the true signicance of those Roman reliefs which we have learned to understand as the representatives of the Persian Mithras," he said...
...medieval beholder could appreciate the beauty of classical sculpture only if it was used in behalf of a medieval idea," he added...
...then-with a telephone, a pair of gloved hands, a package addressed to one actor that drives an inquisitive fellow actor mad-the essential idea is fresh, amusing and satiric. Here and there the production embroidery is ingenious and witty. But too often it is obvious that beneath all the sauce piquante there is leftover meat or no meat at all; and in time there results an awful sameness of effect from so many frantic efforts to be different...
...funny novel about business chicanery. Its unlikely author: a Communist with an irrepressible sense of humor. In Threepenny Novel, the late German Playwright and Novelist Bertolt Brecht takes the position that business is crime conducted in an aura of respectability. His book is somehow engaging despite this classic Marxist idea, because of its raffishly vital characters who make all the Cash McCalls in their grey flannel suits seem as sedate, proper and wooden as the paneling of their executive suites...
...kill in his concern for his fellow man, and Jane Darwell as Tom's mother, whose only concern is to keep her family together, are particularly competent. Although the Okies are represented sympathetically, the characters are not really developed as people, but serve more as vehicles of idea expression. This is an even more noticeable fault than it was in Steinbeck's novel. The concern with idea expression seems especially artificial at the movie's end when Ma Joad delivers a "The People, Yes!" speech, but it is no more than Steinbeck's symbolic life affirmation conclusion...