Word: life
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard and M. I. T. varsity fencing teams competed evenly for the first two rounds last night, but the Crimson came to life in the third round and thrashed the Beavers, 17-10, before a crowd...
...once asked Collins what kind of life he envisioned after everyone had freed himself of authority. He replied, "Then we can fuck those bastards...
...inventing this super-hero Lang created an adventure film whose marvels illustrated a deep and true vision of life. He refused to people Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) with the cardboard Bonds and Flints of today's adventure fantasies. Every character is a complex personality. In one gambling house de Witt, hunting "the Great Unknown," is distracted by the sight of an extraordinary woman, the Countess Tolst. He leaves the card table to walk to the couch on which she reposes. In two minutes Lang gives us her soul. We see no shallow temptress, no abstract sentimental heroine. The countess...
...Lang suggests by crosscutting Mabuse's and Lohmann's organizations at work, it hardly matters whom the call comes from. These men simply work for someone else. They are small; they try through obedience to keep their jobs, their security. "He [man] places a high value on his individual life," says Mabuse. "He even regards himself as an individual, with free will...
...only breaches in the net of control over their lives are made by the absolutely desperate, who risk their lives on the chance of surviving. Yet these characters are no more deep or attractive than any others. One must endorse them only because fighting for control over one's life, fighting fascism, is the only human course of action. Lang suggests no hope that the society resulting from that fight will be better than the chaos of the present. One's actions are compelled by the real, not led by the ideal...