Word: madman
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...those that are open teach little more than Maoist slogans. China's cultural life has been brought to a dreary standstill by the Cultural Revolution; not a single book of any major value has been published for two years, and the only new play that showed promise, The Madman of the New Age, was condemned by the critics as an oblique attack...
...that the U.S.A. is the last place where the courage of an individual to fight against man's inhumanity to man would be met with the cruel bullet of an assassin, had hardly died away. And now Dr. King is dead, crucified on the cross hairs of a madman's telescopic sights. Yes, that is the excuse we give ourselves. It is the work of a demented individual. Perhaps if we repeat it often enough, we might even come to believe...
...tragic isolation from :he mainland of humanity. Though he has glaring faults as a scenarist, Director Bergman is supreme in handling us troupe; the actors, like Sven Nykvist's phosphorescent photography can ender reality and surreality without missing a heartbeat. Von Sydow is gothically brilliant as the madman; Ullman's ragedienne reinforces her position-already secured by Persona-as one of Scandmavia's major actresses. If in the nd, the Hour of the Wolf suffers from simplistic psychiatry and some less than fresh observations of man's fate, it remains worthwhile simply because Ingar Bergman...
...your story on Rabbi Richard Rubenstein [Feb. 16]: let us lay the blame of Auschwitz where it belongs: on all of us who let a madman run loose for so long. Please do not blame God. He has had a pretty rough time with His children...
...smug psychiatrist proposes to jar the supposed madman back to sanity by the ploy of having the portrait of his young love come to life in the person of her daughter. Seeing the elder and the younger woman side by side does indeed shock the pseudo Henry-to the point of stabbing his old love rival to death. By this sudden act of murder, the Emperor loses his freedom and is imprisoned in the illusions and fantasies of which he was previously the master...