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...doctrines of Holy Scripture in many places, both according to their literal meaning" and the common interpretation of the early Church Fathers. The head of the Holy Office, which was responsible for seeking out heresy, ordered Galileo not to disseminate his views, and the astronomer agreed. Nonetheless, his 1632 masterwork, Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems, pursued the theory. The Holy Office condemned Galileo and kept him under house arrest during his final years...
Faced with the nagging question of what really happened to at least 6,000 people who mysteriously disappeared in the government's 1970s crackdown, the junta finally went public with an answer. In a masterwork of avoidance, the military claimed that from 1973 to 1979,2,050 civilians were killed. But it said nothing of how, when or where the victims died. The report denied the contention of government critics that many of the missing were still in detention. Anyone not known to be in exile or hiding, declared the report, is now "for judicial purpose considered dead." Conceding...
...masterwork The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt argued that Hitler and Stalin used terror as a tool to fabricate a new kind of man devoid of individualism and self-respect, Didion correctly sees a similar phenomenon taking place in EI Salvador Indiscriminate, random killing deemphasize the value of human existence Murder no longer shocks Salvadorans; it is a natural part of life...
...declared in 1959 that the novel would "come to stand as one of the great events in man's literary and moral history," scarcely anybody seemed to believe him. Since then it has been principally Russian exiles and specialists who have persisted in treating Doctor Zhivago as a masterwork of 20th century fiction. For all the attention the book has received from American critics, Doctor Zhivago might be a novelization of the movie of the same name...
...choreographer than a director, since he claims he likes to set up situations in which the acting evolves spontaneously. Maybe he really does know what he's doing--maybe his vision is unfailing--but somehow there's always this nagging incompleteness in his movies. The confidence of a genuine masterwork seems to seep out of Five Easy Pieces, but it's almost impossible to tell why. He has an obsession with isolated, emotionally-distant characters, and he shows them with remarkable clarity. One wonders, though, if he's really exploring them. The King of Marvin Gardens might have been...