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...originality, intelligence and a fierce regard for man's fate. In The Moviegoer, he writes about New Orleans and the surrounding countryside as though he had created it, but that is almost the least of his virtues. The main fact is that his theme-the despair that attacks numberless people in their inmost minds-is handled with just the right degree of seriousness and humor, of rancor and indifference...
When the pratfall and pie-in-the-puss comedy tires him, Comic Wisdom resorts to a genus of comedy that in seven films (all hits) and numberless TV shows he has failed to master: pantomime. While allowing himself to be duped by a charlatan of a music-hall star (played to seedy perfection by Jerry Desmonde), he lisps, giggles, gawks, grimaces, mugs and burbles. "Aggressive," is his psychiatrist's diagnosis at film's end. "I think you'd better grow up a little...
...first thing you notice about the Loeb Drama Center is that all the doors are locked. Of the almost numberless glass doors on the outside of the building, only one is open during the day, and closets, offices, and workshops inside are usually inaccessible...
...closed. Brecht fashioned such a personal idiom in German that his language has been called "a function of the body." The present translations need more body English. Even so, the volume is an excellent introduction to Brecht's restlessly animated evocation of life, in which his puppets-numberless versions of Everyman-dance to the Threepenny tune of Jonathan Peachum...
This swaddled image lying in the damp, cramped cavern where Jesus may actually have been born is the center and model of numberless Nativity scenes all over the world. Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox or sectarian, there are crèches today almost everywhere there are Christians. There are Nativities as sumptuous as the presepio (manger) in Rome's 11th century Church of Ara Coeli (Altar of Heaven) on Capitoline Hill, with its Christ child-legendarily carved by St. Luke himself-so bedecked with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls and gold that its form is barely discernible and the surplus treasure...