Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inspired writing to be sure, his long denunciation of Bolingbroke is superb acting. There is something noble and thrilling about an individual in the right willing to oppose the mob in the wrong even though he may be scaling his own doom. Thus has it always been: Antigone, Saint Joan, Sir Thomas More, Dr. Thomas Stockmann, Martin Luther King. Carlisle is of their company. In the play's final scene, Bolingbroke sentences Carlisle to live as a perpetual anchorite. Yet when Bolingbroke in the end decides to make a voyage of penance to the Holy Land, Waring's Carlisle...
...Joan of the Angels? The question mark is a salve to any who might be offended by this excellent Polish film about demons of eroticism loose in an Ursuline convent...
...modern Polish writers are not so rash as their romantic predecessors and much more realistic. They combine an unflinching look at the grimness of life with a subdued hope for something better, an attitude that has spilled over into the other arts, including the best products (Ashes and Diamonds, Joan of the Angels?) of Poland's revitalized motion picture industry. "The Yalta agreement between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union," writes Editor Kuncewicz, summing up, "had the unexpected result of transforming Poland into a laboratory where the most incompatible elements of human destiny are melting into new forms...
...Joan of the Angels? The question mark is a salve to any who might be offended by this excellent Polish film about demons of eroticism loose in an Ursuline convent...
Today, all respond to her-Joan Baez...