Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summit also marked the entrance of Britain into Europe's troubled suprapolitics. Just two days before the Paris meeting, the House of Lords was notified of Royal Assent to the treaty specifying the terms of British entry into the enlarged EEC-along with Denmark and Ireland-on Jan. 1. As Prime Minister Heath had put it: "In this new partnership we have a chance as a great people, as a formidable nation, as a shaper and molder of the modern world, to get back into action...
...EMIGRANTS is one of the great films that not only succeeds on its own terms, but could persuade new filmmakers to work according to its standards. It is the freshest film l've seen since Bergman's Passion of Anna--perhaps because writer director photographer-editor Jan Troell believes in examining human responsibility on his social scale as Bergman does on his less expansive but more involved psychological one. Troell and Bergman are not enthralled by suffering, but they know its depths and believe that their characters can take it. It is a rare enough attitude in the twentieth century...
Nonetheless, the prosaic preparations for the summit, foreshadowing the entry of Britain, Ireland and Denmark into the EEC on Jan. 1, accurately reflect the current boredom with the whole idea of a united Europe. Little more than a decade ago, Spanish Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga grandly envisioned the day when "Spaniards will say 'our Chartres,' Italians 'our Copenhagen' and Germans 'our Bruges,' and will step back horror-stricken at the idea of laying murderous hands on it." Then there were dreams and drama; today there are mostly details...
...Daniel Ellsberg ever discuss with you the content or existence of the Pentagon Papers between Jan. 1, 1971, and June...
...want my mommy," continually cried two-year-old Laura, subject of a documentary film which depicted the traumatic experiences of a small child requiring hospital care: The film was used as a springboard for discussion in a seminar conducted by Colin Couture and Jan Gaffney, two members of the Children's Hospital staff...