Word: moralist
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...last book, Author Dougherty gave his narrative that leaven of malice which is the salt of a certain kind of novel writing. In The Commissioner, the reader may feel malice-especially if he is a frequent traffic-ticketee-but the author clearly does not. Anthony Russell, the dour Irish moralist who is the police commissioner of the title, has Dougherty's worshipful approval. Russell's problems are believable-what to do about his oldest friend, the chief, who has been caught doing a favor for a racketeer; how to deal with a powerful Negro leader who thinks mistakenly...
Yojimbo. In the movies, where every man is a genius until proven otherwise, only one director of recent years has not been proven otherwise: Japan's Akira Kurosawa. In Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood he displayed formidable powers as a moralist, an ironist, a calligraphist of violence. In Ikiru, one of cinema's rare great works of art. he revealed a rugged realism, an exquisite humanity, a sense for what is sublime in being human. Now. in a movie that is both a wow of a show and a masterpiece of misanthropy, Kurosawa emerges...
...German version of a U.S. cowboy who has made the Old West familiar country to every German child since Karl May invented him a century ago. In a long and fanciful lifetime (1842-1912), May was more than a Zane Grey to Germany, and more a popular moralist than a popular novelist. May became an authority on the wild West without straying from Dresden (where he kept his Villa Shatterhand littered with frontier souvenirs), and May's West was even nobler than the Lone Ranger's. Old Shatterhand (a German immigrant cowboy) brought Teutonic virtue to the plains...
...sternest gesture yet from the "New Life" military government of General Park Chung Hee, 44, the olive-drab moralist who regards his mission as nothing short of "remaking Korean man." After General Park's junta assumed power last May, gamblers and hustlers soon found themselves in road gangs, millionaires were stripped of their wealth, and frills like engagement rings, high weddings or elaborate funerals were forbidden. When goods continued to be smuggled in from Japan, Hong Kong and American PXs, General Park proclaimed: "The sight of luxury goods arouses wanton desires in the mind of the people. Burn them...
...unborn offspring his? Will it even be human? The answers supply some neat fillips at book's end, but they are only part of the literary sugar-coating on Vercors' pill. For pill it is, Vercors is not so much a novelist as a moralist, and Sylva is not so much a novel as a fable-an edifying tale designed to explore the question that has been bothering 59-year-old Jean Brüller ever since he took the pen name Vercors and wrote the book that made his reputation: The Silence...