Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others: Castro, Jan. 26, 1959; Che Guevara, Aug. 8, 1960; Exile Leader Jose Miro Cardona, April 28, 1961; and Communist Boss Bias Roca, April...
...becoming important event in the international film world. Like the festivals at Cannes or Venice, it provided a survey of the most recent masterpieces established directors, such as Godard, Kurosawa, Visconti, Ray, and Dreyer. In addition, the New York showing introduced much fresh talent. Three brilliant Eastern European directors, Jan Kadar and Milos Forman from Czechoslovakia and Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, had their American debut at the Festival...
Half of the audience in Philharmonic Hall gave The Shop on High Street a deserved five-minute standing ovation; the other half remained seated, paralyzed by the film's impact. Director Jan Kadar uses his camera as the eyes of Tono Britko to place the viewer inside the mind of the simple farmer who the Nazis make the "Aryan Manager" of a Jewish button shop in Czechoslovakia...
That gambit dismayed the progressives. Dutch Bishop Jan Willebrands, the secretariat's second-in-command, got an audience with the Pope, warned him of the adverse worldwide reaction if the declaration were sidetracked. Paul agreed. He summoned Gregory Peter Agagianian, a Curia cardinal and one of the moderators, and suggested that the bishops should be allowed to decide whether they wanted the text. Agagianian informed the council leaders of Paul's views, and they reversed their stand...
...defenses that were delivered before the council. Speaking from 14 years' experience as a prisoner of Communism, Czechoslovakia's Josef Cardinal Beran suggested that the church is suffering today in expiation for its past sins against religious liberty-such as the burning of the 15th century heretic, Jan Hus. And Belgian Bishop Emile De Smedt helped calm conservative fears by arguing that just as other council actions had gone well beyond earlier church teachings, the statement on liberty was a necessary way for the church to advance with the times...