Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EASY RIDER is born of the natural union of American International motorcycle epics and all those westerns whose aging heroes have outlived their era. The two protagonists are as painfully inarticulate as any western idol; their sluggishness of mind is of course intended to be read as sensitivity and moral integrity. Billy's even decked out in a fringed suede jacket, boots, and cowboy hat. The beautiful Southwest landscapes of photographer Laszlo Kovaes turn hostile each night around the campfire, where a lot of authentic marijuana dialogue goes on. Like Western heroes, they are isolated in travel from their natural...
...Germans look to it as a small bright light in a black past. Even that light is somewhat dim, however, for as any student of the period knows the attempt on the life of Hitler was motivated by the fact that he was losing the war, not by moral opposition...
...think it's going to be licked; it's not as freaky a problem as the numbers originally indicated. But we have a moral obligation to the city of Cambridge not to send these people out searching for apartments, and we have to find them places even if we have to hire hotel rooms...
...Grand Kabuki illuminates the paradox in the Japanese character, an outward decorum of almost inhuman restraint masking an inner fury of almost demonic feelings. Out of this tension the Japanese fashioned the peculiar beauty of their drama, rather like the Greeks, whose tragedies distilled the moral of "nothing in excess" from a people capable of nothing but excess...
...exaltation and terror: Marlowe's discovery that man is alone. He mocks religion in the guise of popery, and he imagines the triumph of will defiant beyond limit. But he wakes in the night with the sweaty fear of death. And he sees that man makes all the moral rules there are, as he makes his own earth-bound hellfire...