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Love in Tarbox is not a free and unmerited human grace, but a mask of fear. Love-making is for Piet a way of momentarily escaping his haunting fear of death, a way of forgetting the reality of loss, the eventual extinction of consciousness...
...editor of the Richmond News Leader, "the hardest of all the Negro leaders or a reporter to get to know. It was possible to joke with Thurgood Marshall, philosophize with Roy Wilkins, reminisce with James Farmer, but King remained an impenetrable figure. His faintly Oriental face was a calm mask for the tensions that surged unceasingly within him. Yet he was the bravest man I ever knew in public life. During the terrible days that followed upon the school desegregation ruling, no white Southerner ever matched a fraction of his courage. To watch one of his marches was to sense...
...Mask for Tensions. A few commentators eloquently separated the man from the martyr. In Newsday, Frank Lynn recalled "two terrifying hours" in Philadelphia, Miss., site of the slaying of the three civil rights workers, when King led 200 marchers through the streets. Cursed, clubbed, spat on by vicious whites unrestrained by police, King "refused to bow to the passion of the moment" and continued to march without faltering or fighting back...
...longer placated by the hypocritical rhetoric used by the administration to mask the institutional racism on this campus. The college is turning its back on the black students, as though we should be "grateful" just to be at Fair Harvard. "Veritas" as a motto is a farce. There has been a failure of those in academia to come to grips with the substantive issues in reality, without some form of condescension or patronization; they say that progress has been made, while defining that progress themselves. We are no longer fooled...
...Sydow's naked ex-mistress (Ingrid Thulin), who seduces him, then ridicules him before the others. The castle takes on the air of a Dadaesque painting: a man walks the ceiling and the walls, like a fly; the old lady peels off her face like a mask, then drops her eyes in a wineglass. A malignant bird pecks away at Von Sydow as if he were Prometheus chained...