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Samuel Pisar, who is a naturalized American living in Paris and the widely acclaimed author of Coexistence and Commerce, is perhaps the paradigm of the existential, communal kind of Jew. Of the 900 students in his Polish elementary school, Pisar is one of two to survive the holocaust. He calls the communal ties of Jews a "bond of suffering that comes whenever Jews are threatened." He felt the pull of that bond when he attended an international conference in Kiev last summer. After a VIP tour of the city, he became uneasy. "The [concentration camp] numbers...
...show are the icons and the opulent czarist bibelots. But then the question of the limits of folk art comes up. Can the men who wrought a jeweled bowl, half boat and half bird, for Czar Michael Fedorovich Romanov in 1624 be called folk artists? Obviously not. This courtly paradigm of imperial extravagance is of an order quite different from the decorated spindles, distaffs and painted figures of the Russian provinces...
...rather by a prophetic sense of the futility of voluntary action against the crushing power of irrational history--Buchner watches himself as he is swept along to a senseless, inevitable death. Sabel's treatment of the playwright is, strangely enough, almost entirely appropriate to historical fact, and a paradigm for the present as well. The two-act-play is skillfully consistent and well-knit, but its concentration of wit and the abruptness of scene-changes could only confuse an audience. Some plays are meant to be read rather than produced: that granted, Sabel's Play...is an admirable work...
Jacques is the paradigm of this idealism without perception. He returns toward the end of the film and proposes marriage to Marie. There is a cliche long-shot of the two of them climbing a hill with the countryside spread out behind, and for the moment it seems as though the film is returning to sentimentalism. But a few shots later Marie is seen raped, naked, cowering in the corner. The imminence of the ideal makes the real that much more painful...
...beginning. Centuries before the birth of democracy, Homer has Odysseus tell us that "Zeus takes away half a man's manhood that day he makes him a slave." Athens warred for decades to preserve its most sacred possession- elcutheria -freedom. For two millennia, Greek freedom has served as a paradigm for western nations. Certainly, the view of freedom in the Athens of the Golden Age is highly romanticized-for many were, in fact, still slaves-but it was in Athens that large-scale political freedom first existed. Therefore, it is particularly cruel that Greece should now be the plaything...