Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California Supreme Court has just disagreed. In upholding Terence, the court reminded the committee that bar admission usually turns on whether an applicant has committed or is likely to commit "acts of moral turpitude." Even a criminal conviction is insufficient; examiners must weigh "the nature of the offense." The high court noted that since 1963, "petitioner has repudiated the use of force as a political principle." Repressing pugnacity, he kept his cool during all of his arrests for civil disobedience. Indeed, said the court, Hallinan has the very "good moral character" that the bar examiners failed to see. And unlike...
Night Games. Mai Zetterling is a Swedish cinemactress who in middle age has ventured to look through the other end of the lens. In Loving Couples she saw Sweden as the land of the midnight fun. In Night Games she sees it as a heap of moral garbage. The film as a result made a certain stink at this year's film festivals. At Venice it was banned from public showing, at San Francisco it was berated as "pornography for profit." The statement was made by Shirley Temple, a critic with rather frivolous credentials, but it is essentially correct...
Night Games is ostensibly the case history of a mother complex. The man who has it (Keve Hjelm), a wealthy young Swede, revisits the house he grew up in and invites a moral conflict between the memory of his profligate mother (Ingrid Thulin) and the love of his innocent fiancee (Lena Brundin). In a series of what might be called flesh-backs, the man-as-boy (Jorgen Lindstrom) wanders in memory through a child's garden of sexual reverses. Among the obscene scenes: his mother summoning a crowd of drunken guests into her bedroom and letting them watch while...
...derisive piece about the manners of a group of middle-class Jewish New Yorkers deciding what is the correct attitude to take toward a stag film. A famous piece by Lionel Trilling (Of This Time, Of That Place) pits genius against the academic establishment in a story about a moral crisis in the life of a college professor. That the military is an insensitive institution is made plain by William Styron's story of a long march ordered by a Marine martinet, and it is unconsciously funny when measured by the standards of less car-oriented societies in which...
Force & Style. The Europeans in the collection seem most successful when they are least experimental and stay close to the traditional fixture of fiction -the sense of time and region. In Albert Camus' The Renegade, his great moral force triumphs over impressionistic style. But Stories and Texts for Nothing, III, Samuel Beckett's abstract exercise in vocalized nihilism, is a dud. So also is Secret Room, by France's modish Alain Robbe-Grillet, a montage of quasi-photographic fragments that is merely abstract and fatally a bore...