Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of us know, there is a wealth of evidence to the contrary. A work like Three-penny Opera or Lucia so completely interfuses dramatic and political concerns that it would not occur to us to separate their claims on our attention. It should not surprise us to find that when a play's political tension is built upon the same internal logic that propels its dramatic development, each is made more vivid by the resonance of the other. This can only happen if the playwright's chief concern is to write something, not write about something. If the play...
Bits of fantasy occur at different times, and the girls must compare their separate experiences-all archetypes from childhood fairy tales-to piece together the whole magical enigma...
...creator of Pickpocket and The Trial of Joan of Arc, there are scenes and images here of a terrible, severe beauty: knights dying in battle or competing in joust, a mailed hand clutching the handle of a weapon, a horse's eye going wide in terror. These visions occur, however, not in an epic adventure, but as part of a moral speculation in miniature. Bresson's ascetic attentions converge on the fateful romance of Lancelot (Luc Simon) and Queen Guinevere (Laura Duke Condominas) and extend beyond it to the end of the courtly tradition, as did the original...
...elusive something that happened sometime ago and made him the way he is. "Something did happen to me somewhere," says Slocum, "that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur." At the same time, the novel intermingles Slocum's memories with an ongoing chronicle of his family's disintegration, his success in his work, his pursuit of sexual satisfaction, and his fight against insanity, all leading up to a "Something Happened" so horrible as to be beyond recognition or comprehension. The novel...
...under the impact of tactical strikes and the slump. Nationalization of both kinds of companies will be demanded to save jobs and, given the state of public opinion in Britain today, such demands will be irresistible. Once industry is nationalized, the same kind of redistribution of wealth that would occur under a Labour government could be effected...