Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Answer. At their best, the new Czech films combine a zest for cinematic experimentation with a thematic audacity and wry humor that is surprising in a Communist culture. A recurrent motif of the Prague cinemakers is the plight of the dogged individualist who bombards society with question marks, and usually receives "Oh" for an answer. Black Peter, Forman's first feature film, is a droll defense of an aimless Czech teenager, who drifts from senseless jobs to hopeless dance-hall encounters to empty lectures at home. In the devastating symbolism of Joseph Kilián, by 30-year...
...Cecil Northcott charged that "the Graham crusade is a redundant anachronism in a world which demands that its Christianity shall be seen in community life, in social justice, and racial honesty. To be 'saved' at Earl's Court is not the answer to the plight of mankind, nor is it the answer for your own personal salvation...
Dangerous Wildcats. Britain's government leaders have often mismanaged the economy, and its executives have often been unimaginative, but Britons themselves are increasingly blaming their productivity plight on the backward-looking trade unions, which count 9,900,000 members. Mired in a Depression-era mentality and still committed to the concept of class struggle, many unionists have an inexplicable fear that the grim layoffs of the 1930s will reoccur. They are not likely to. In Scotland alone, there are now 154 jobs available for every 100 men looking for work, and unemployment throughout Britain is at a ten-year...
...though all its members are nonCommunist. One reason was to ensure participation by the Japanese, who are both dubious about the Viet Nam war and anxious to increase their trade with Red China. Thus at Seoul the final communique last week expressed "sympathy" with South Viet Nam's plight, affirmed the nation's right to freedom "from external aggression and subversion," and "noted with satisfaction" the aid being given by other nations to help Saigon's war effort. But at the behest of the Japanese delegates it did not go so far as to overtly condemn...
Adapted from a 1906 drama by Swedish Playwright Hjalmar Soderberg, Gertrud dawdles over the plight of an Ibsenish opera singer, a free and independent woman who regards love as unconditional surrender. "The man must belong to me completely," she says, and all intimations of psychological complexity stop right there. Having long since abandoned a famous erotic poet on grounds that he gave too much of himself to his stanzas, Gertrud is about to leave her husband (Bendt Rothe), a lawyer with Cabinet-level aspirations. Briefly, she tries a flighty playboy-pianist who decides that "the complete absorption of one another...