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...masterpiece, Los Olmdados (1950), he opened people's eyes to the horrors of poverty in the Mexican slums. In Viridiana, a strange but powerful film that contains one episode of Goyesque genius, he attempts to open people's eyes to the evils of sentimental piety and morbid tyranny in Franco's Spain...
Cardiff's economy in leaving out the first twenty years of the Morel family saga (as well as many of the lesser characters) is well justified, for the structure of the novel emerges all the more clearly. With considerable skill, he balances Mrs. Morel's almost morbid domination of Paul's sensitive and passionate nature with the physical inhibitions produced in Miriam by her mother's puritanical beliefs. The novel is rather humorless; Cardiff creates several badly needed moments of comic relief--such as an address from a stout suffragette. Most important, he never loses sight of Mrs. Morel...
...ever quite understanding the other. It shimmers with the subtle and subdued radiance of Our Town, the unique Thornton Wilder signature that no one else in the U.S. theater can convincingly forge. Two girls and a boy, aged 13, 10 and 8, play what Mother calls one of their "morbid" games, "Funeral." In the game, Father and Mother have died in a bloody accident, and the children gather in church to praise them with faint damns. Mother was nice, "but she was always shopping." Father was a fine man, but "he never said anything very interesting...
Three more articles round out the November Comment. David N. Klausner's "Death by Half Life" is fully as morbid as the author intended it to be. Arthur Springer's defense of the peace movement has moments of eloquence. And Peter Scharfman's didactic book review is provocative, but jumps much too abruptly from Atlantic Union to World Federation and back...
These at least are Rehder and Twaddell's preliminary and tentative observations. A bustling, active country: trains come and go; Kinos start; hundreds of Wiener Schnitzels (auch etwas Salat) are consumed at every meal. And the people talk about all of these things freely, and with a morbid intensity. And yet Rehder and Twaddell are not blinded by this voluble happiness; honest men that they are, they have recorded other more ominous conversations. Consider this exchange (found in chapter...