Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were attributes prized by his contemporaries. Prince Ferdinand of Capua, for instance, made Crivelli a knight, and in his later years Crivelli proudly signed his paintings with his Latin title "Miles." But essentially, he was a loner. Though he had lived in Venice, he spent most of his life in the hilly region called The Marches on the Adriatic. There he worked alone, perfecting a style that has intrigued and puzzled critics ever since...
...pilots who handle these hardy planes are called "rough riders." Says Rough Rider Air Force Major John J. Knight, an F106 pilot: "Every time I approach a storm I wonder how rough this one is going to be. You know it is going to be rough, but you don't know how rough. And once you're inside you're so busy you can't think of anything else. You don't horse the controls around. You have to believe your instruments. In those things you can't fly by the seat of your...
...film; a cliche can pass for an emotion, and a gesture for an insight. Yet the human appeal of Bergman's films proceeds not from his use of these escapes, but intensely anti-intellectual endings. Consciously or not, he asserts humanity by rejecting the intellectual and the analytic--the knight of the Seventh Seal, his quest for meaning in life unfulfilled, is taken by Death, leaving behind the troupers who have accepted life unquestioning. The Magician is called off to give a command performance, escaping a broken scientist whose effort to strip life down to reality has failed...
...servant says, "People quiver like a leaf in the storm, afraid of what they know--and what they don't." He is clearly delivering a message, more clearly because he is so out of tone with the film. This same conscious search for certainty and safety links the knight of The Seventh Seal, the aging doctor of Wild Strawberries, the Magician, and even the distraught schoolboy of the earlier and less sophisticated Torment...
Samson, my knight...