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...Eisenstein and D. W. Griffith among the supreme creators of cinema. Rashomon (1952) introduced him to U.S. audiences as a powerful ironist. The Magnificent Seven (1956) demonstrated his mastery of movies as pure movement. Ikiru (1960), one of the screen's great spiritual documents, revealed him as a moralist both passionate and profound. Throne of Blood, a resetting of Macbeth among the clanking thanes and brutish politics of 16th century Japan, is a visual descent into the hell of greed and superstition, into the gibbering darkness of the primitive mind. It is a nerve-shattering spectacle of physical...
...good and evil for which no child can be too old and no adult too young. In the past, Wilde has often been reduced to the importance of reading and seeing The Importance of Being Earnest; now he is being rediscovered as a magical fabulist and as great a moralist as he was an immoralist. Wilde saw life as a fatality, and many of his fables end tragically. None can be summarized or quoted out of context, for they are mosaics into which Wilde put the man-hours that it takes to polish a diamond...
Anderson is a remarkable combination of military politician, diplomat, public relations expert, disciplinarian, moralist-and experienced Navy airman. He has flown Navy aircraft ranging from aged PBYs to new jets. He has commanded carriers, task forces and fleets, handled wartime air logistics in Honolulu and Washington, piloted postwar swivel chairs at General Eisenhower's SHAPE and as Admiral Arthur Radford's assistant on the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Proverb and Other Stories, by Marcel Ayme. The Mephistophelian French moralist illustrates his conviction that art and life tug in different directions, and celebrates that tension with a gusty Vive la différence...
...Proverb and Other Stories, by Marcel Aymé. In this batch of short stories, the Mephistophelian French moralist illustrates his conviction that art and life tug in different directions, and celebrates that tension with a gusty Vive la différence...