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...this seems peculiar at a time when the U.S. teems with putative intellectuals-in hospitals, foundations, think tanks, the government, "knowledge industry" corporations. A company of RCA's scope is now involved not only in manufacturing but also in producing novels and doing research in linear algebra. The Pentagon's interests range from high-energy physics to tutoring for school dropouts. The U.S. needs intellectuals for defense, city planning, space exploration, for running computers and training more intellectuals. The intellectual's horizons are almost unlimited. Then why is he so unhappy...
WHAT Ungaretti drew from the War was the peculiar knowledge of a "disabused modern consciousness," not d'Annunzio's heroic myth of the theatrical, but rather the awareness of anonymity and other sorrows. Influenced more by Giacomo Leopardi, the great Italian poet of the nineteenth century, and by Mallarmé, than by the aesthetic exigencies of his own age, Ungaretti shared with his close friends Apollinaire and the Fauvist Braque a profound despair over history's irrationality. But Apollinaire never survived the War, and those who did were so shattered and forlorn that their only response was that...
Luckily, there are the snazzy Richard Adler-Jerry Ross songs. It is with these that Yankees connects often enough to made much of the evening throb with that special kind of joy peculiar to the musical theatre...
Though the film departs considerably from Gavin Maxwell's witty, eccentric book, it does manage to convey that peculiar love for a pet that can amount to an obsession. In addition, it provides the accepting child viewer with the prime requisites for motion pictures: 1) a star with fur, 2) adults who look foolish (as Merrill does when he tries, by flapping his arms, to teach a gosling to fly), and 3) no love scenes except those between otter and otter. The result is little otters, making Ring of Bright Water the best sex-education film ever...
...KIRCHNER paints a girl's face like a summer lime. Blue cheek bones, black and red eyes. Smearing pink, red over the bright surface, his violent hand defines her delicacy. In every harshly subtle gesture, sensitivity spins and enmeshes this violence. Throwing his personality into all his works, this peculiar vision of the world emerges from shocking colors and distorted figures. Every work is a self portrait...