Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...associate of the Harvard Center for International Affairs whose work has never been subsidized or utilized by the Government, and can hardly be called friendly to it. I want to express my indignation at the harassment of the Center by the November Action Committee. One may have political or moral reservations about some of the Center's professors'individual work, or individual connections with the Government: one may have academic reservations about the relevance of some of the Center's activities to the rest of the University. But the core of the Center consists in individual and collective research that...
...subject of the American Empire 1969, but it isn't an easy fight and the outcome is in doubt. "Salvation becomes almost a mundane, inevitable goal when things are so bad, really intolerable," Susan Sontag says in an essay entitled "What's Happening in America (1966)." Salvation-artistic and moral-is what Sontag discusses in a complex yet ballsy way in Styles of Radical Will, a collection of essays written since...
...Griffith, in using an abstract scheme of moral sentiments to design a drama, had nothing to follow except his instincts. They led him to direct engagement with his material. He buried himself on the one hand in his subjects' history, on the other in the dramatic means he'd developed in eight years and four hundred films. His means did not give him formal dramatic control of his project; Intolerance's moral conclusions were not designed into the film from its beginning. Griffith rather intended his range of historical settings to reveal the struggles of "hate and intolerance against love...
THIS METHOD of historical parallels of moral conduct belongs more to sermons than to films, but Intolerance is nowhere narrowly moralistic or illustrative, nowhere organized as a set of examples to prove a point. Indeed, its episodes are so independent that the integrity of its theme is seriously stretched . From the institutional oppression of the poor by the rich in modern times Griffith moves to the political intrigues of Catherine de Medici, to religious conflicts in Christ's Palestine, and to the grand movements of the political civilization of Babylon. He calls the injustices of each social system "intolerance." Consequently...
...entirely different in dramatic action and shooting style; a unique flavor of each way of life reaches the viewer. Each character is completely one with his society. There's an integration of every character's existence and emotion not equalled in his later films, which are based on moral differences. The sets and the action of background figures often seem filled with the sentiments of the principals in the foreground. No other Griffith film attains that degree of unity within such a huge setting...