Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the mainstream of the story, and the script should have followed it through the film. Instead, it wanders aimlessly into backwaters of violence, sex, segregation and even antiSemitism. The sex develops into a love affair that, as these things go in Hollywood productions, is unusually fierce and sweet and natural. But the rough stuff is merely conventional, and the race question, in the last analysis, is begged. Kazan's direction, however, is firm-most of the leading players give creditable performances, and Lee Remick, as the back-country belle the hero falls for, is singularly touching. Most...
...have taken part in the stoning of Stephen or known Jesus. The emphasis on Jerusalem, suggests Professor John Knox of Union Theological Seminary, may have been provided by Physician Luke who may have innocently doctored both the Acts and his Gospel to present Christianity as a continuation of the mainstream of Judaism, thereby giving it protection as a recognized religion from Roman persecution. One scholar has even tried to explain Paul's early vehemence against the Christians by suggesting that Paul at one time considered himself to be the Messiah...