Word: polemicizes
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"I made this picture to point up the laxity of Japanese kidnaping laws," Kurosawa says. Japanese law makes kidnaping a popular crime, since a conviction brings a sentence of only one to ten years if the victim is returned unharmed. But the film is no mere polemic. The story begins...
Unfortunately, they will find little more. Geismar's book is knowledgeable and occasionally witty--but it is also badly written, ill-tempered, and blased out of all proportion. His point, reiterated throughout the book, is simple enough: he doesn't think Henry James is a great writer and he questions...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 (Philadelphia Orchestra; Columbia) was rehabilitated in 1961 after 25 years of official scorn in Russia; Shostakovich meekly labeled his next symphony "A Soviet Artist's Reply to Just Criticism." Now, in its first American recording, the Fourth is worth hearing mainly to find out what...
It is disquieting to be pulled suddenly out of the middle of a thesis and sat down in the middle of a Pudding Show. The change is noticeable, although both are known to be Institutions, and there are usually only two straightforward reactions to Institutions. One may glorify their endurance...
The Middle Ages, he said, made drama "freakish polemic in the name of religion." Its only justification was the moral betterment of man, an aim he called "antagonistic to the tragedy." Schrade cast doubt on "what usefulness could ever lie in telling the stories" in which "nothing but horror remained...