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The rigors of la poésie pure, the publication of his complete works under the title Vita d'un Uomo, and finally his unanimous election as President of the European Community of Writers in 1962 signaled a waking from the turbulence of his younger years to the task of...
Vigo's focus on mental experience is even clearer in a subsequent sequence where the captain, swimming underwater, sees his wife's face. The shifting appearance of his objective surroundings blends with the illusion superimposed on him: his wife is present in both metaphor and fact. The film's last...
Critical thought cannot flourish in a hierarchical academy whose organization faithfully mirrors the present economic organization of society. Grades can force people to study national income or genetics or Shakespeare, but they militate against the study of a new, humane society. And they foster the illusion that there are no...
Though senior citizens like to recall the good old days when the Academy Awards had dignity and style, that, too, is illusion. "At my first Oscars presentation," recalls Director Joseph Mankiewicz (All About Eve), "Jackie Cooper fell asleep in Marie Dressler's lap. The president of the Academy suggested...
Micawberism. East St. Louis has always been something of an illusion. From the Missouri side of the river, it looks like a throbbing industrial center. Actually, most of the industry is situated beyond the city limits, in a warren of privately incorporated company towns that draw on East St. Louis...