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Archie's Fun House (CBS): Filmation is a leading producer of Saturday-morning TV with 2˝ hours, including that masterwork of animated fatuity, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Stand Up? Both Jerry and Archie are marked by strong anti-intellectualism (teachers are dumb or sadistic; scientists talk with burlesque accents). Both shows are lavishly produced, but Archie shows bigger profits by far. Incorporating all the old malt-shop wit of the comic strip, the hour-long marathon features film clips of kids giggling, and promotes rock-Muzaktwo of the songs have sold more than a million copies...
Died. Erich Maria Remarque, 72, German-born novelist whose antiwar masterwork, All Quiet on the Western Front, sold more than 8,000,000 copies in 45 languages after its publication in 1929; in Locarno, Switzerland. A classic of pacifism, All Quiet focused on the tragic destiny of the defeated German soldier of World War I. The best of his later novels (Arch of Triumph, The Road Back, The Night in Lisbon) dealt with war-wasted human remnants moving across a charred European landscape. Remarque, whose second wife was Screen Actress Paulette Goddard, once said that "hatred is not a good...
...another country. Except for that grand exception: Luis Buñuel. The Old Aragonese, 70, has reached a modus vivendi with Franco Spain, and returned to create in Tristana a coda of inexhaustible power and sophistication. Like the world reflected in a convex mirror, every element is in this masterwork -but somehow transfigured and amplified. People are themselves and something other. Even the film's title has a dual meaning: Tristana suggests "sadness," and is the name of its heroine, impeccably played by Catherine Deneuve...
Ultimately, his studies produced what is thus far his masterwork, Insight, published in 1957. In this book and in later papers, he develops an all-embracing theory of knowledge that includes every area of human understanding, not least of them the awareness of God. Though Lonergan grafts from the scholastic tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas, he has long since gone beyond Thomism, much as Aquinas transcended Aristotle. His particular distinction is that he shares modern philosophy's concern for each man's uniqueness, and sees man's own self-understanding as the key to understanding the universe...
...Sigmund Freud; of heart disease; in New York. Part of Freud's small coterie in pre-World War I Vienna, Reik was one of his principal defenders in later years, expanding on classical Freudian theory in his 50 books. Masochism in Modern Man, his masterwork, proposed that the masochist is basically a pleasure seeker, whose outward need for humiliation expresses a more basic desire to be loved. In all his works, Reik displayed a refreshing freedom from technical jargon, as in Of Love and Lust, where he wrote: "It would be superfluous to tell woman that the proper study...