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...conjunction of two such legendary figures is a wonderful premise for a film. Freud's place in history has reached such dimensions that he is certainly as much of a mythic character as the fictional Holmes. Their pooling of talents promises to be a mystery buff's paradise. Each man in his own way dispels the mysterious: Holmes reveals the order in the rational, objective world while Freud illuminates the power of the irrational in the sphere of the subconscious. The cooperation of the two great detective minds in cracking the case of the missing Lola Devereaux and Freud...
...handle competing interpretations of the Bible. The solution: though purchasers get identical films, the explanatory materials are offered in two editions, prepared by different sets of scholars. One version is aimed at those buyers who accept the Bible as reliable history, the other at those who accept more mythic interpretations of some biblical events. A colloquy in the liberal edition of Bible Times, for example, suggests Mesopotamian influences on the Creation story, while a discussion in the conservative edition upholds unique inspiration by the Holy Spirit...
...Mythic Purity. The purpose of the festival-if one can generalize about this mass of dozens of exhibitions containing thousands of pieces, documents and photos-is to inspect and debate the mythic purity of modern art, to see how it really has worked in society and not just how it hoped to work. Ten years ago, anyone who argued that the Bauhaus tradition of functionalist design might suit the totalitarian spirit would have been dismissed as a loon. The main architecture show in Venice this year, a fascinating assembly called "Rationalism and Architecture in Italy During the Fascist Regime," irrefutably...
...championship game, it certainly had to rank with the now almost mythic clashes between arch-rivals Maryland and John Hopkins. In recent years, however, Hopkins has more often than not folded against Maryland--a fate Cornell resisted. In the overtime Saturday, Maryland's Terry Kimball scored in the first 34 seconds, but instead of playing scared, the Big Red went on to score four unanswered goals and win the national championship...
...current attitudes of the players and owners. Angell sympathizes with the former while realizing that the vast majority of fans are angrily reacting to "the view of the athlete as an employee and a card-carrying union man," which "violates our fan vision of the athlete as a mythic figure, a lone hero." The world of baseball is too much with us--it's not another world any more, an escape to childhood. But I think Angell's sadness will abate--along with the rest of the country's--in the green months of high summer, and that the successor...