Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...control, from teaching theology at the Catholic University of America. (He is now at Southern Methodist University.) In fact, Ratzinger sometimes seems to be turning his back -- literally -- on modern notions. The pre-Vatican II church, he said last April, was theologically correct in having priests "oriented toward the Lord," facing away from the congregation at Mass. He agreed, however, that a reversal would be impractical...
...sole focus of the film, however. Mr. Stevens re-evaluates his professional past as well, from the vantage of the present. Under the service of a new American employer in the "real time" of the movie, Mr. Stevens reflects on the character of his former employer, Lord Darlington, a man involved with the policy of appeasement and the Nazi party, whom Mr. Stevens had trusted and served completely. The two objects of Mr. Stevens' reflection, the personal and the professional, are shown to have conflicted at several points in Mr. Stevens' past, a time in which he invariably prioritized...
This shift of emphasis in characterization also affects the rest of the film. The movie frequently omits material necessary for us to understand the psychological state of the characters. For instance, in one scene Lord Darlington appears enamored of a countess who awkwardly lip-synches a German song, while in a slightly later scene, he insists that two Jewish serving girls be dismissed; what is not made clear in the movie is that he dismisses the two girls under the romantic influence of the countess, and that, when, feeling somewhat guilty a year later, he attempts to trace...
Stevens is the narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro's 1988 novel, The Remains of the Day, a drama so delicate that it touches the reader deeply without applying the pressure of sentiment. The story runs on parallel tracks: the years before World War II, when Stevens worked for his beloved Lord Darlington, an aristocrat who falls into an alliance with the Nazis; and the late '50s, when ! Stevens seeks out Miss Kenton in hopes she will return as housekeeper and, perhaps, something more. In his own ornate, unknowing words, Stevens condemns himself as the English version of a "good German...
...They have peppered the story with deft details that illuminate the cottage industry of running a lavish estate: snipped hedges, gleaming doorknobs, decapitated fowl, the Times pages freshly ironed each morning. And they have filled the house with a perfect cast: Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton; James Fox as Lord Darlington; Peter Vaughn as Stevens' father, the proud old retainer who will never say die -- even when he does. These characters, like those in The Age of Innocence, are all genteel anachronisms. They sin, in our eyes, by not daring to sin; they are poignant in their fidelity to tattered...