Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elmer Bernstein's music heightens the drama captured by the sensitive cameras of James Wong Howe, A.S.C. In addition, there are several jazz numbers by the Chico Hamilton quintet (plus guitar), a group whose modern arrangements lend a suitably syncopated rhythm. The screenplay, by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman (who wrote the book), is for the most part brilliant, capturing the lingo perfectly: "What am I? a bowl of fruit? a tangerine that peels itself?" Or: "Starting today, you could play marbles with his eyeballs." And the pace of director Alexander Mackendrick keeps up with that of the music...
...books are rapidly being translated into German (he is too busy to do the job himself) as well as French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. Fellow theologians are increasingly coming to view his work as a monumental and unique effort to match the insights of Christianity with the predicament of modern...
...culture is the form of religion." He has long been concerned with the insights of psychiatry; Psychoanalyst Rollo May, leading U.S. exponent of "existential analysis" (TIME, Dec. 29), studied under Tillich at Union Seminary, and continues to keep in close touch with him. He is also keenly interested in modern art, and has written and lectured extensively on how art manifests "ultimate reality...
...Must Die (French). A modern Calvary that glares with the raw light of an essential religious experience...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic...