Word: post-war
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...film is also daring in its confrontation of the subject of the European post-war mentality. Takes, the veteran of the Resistance who is always reliving the war and "would do it all over again tomorrow, if [he] had to," stands as a foil for Anton, who denies his past and buries his guilt. Over the years, Anton's suppressed feelings put him under increased strain, which manifests itself physically as seizures and toothaches...
Even though the film is two and a half hours long and spans forty years, The Assault is actually a short epic, concerned with the destiny of the post-war European soul. There is not a gratuitous scene or extraneous line of dialogue in it. Director Fons Rademakers is meticulous yet never plodding. The Assault is a film of obvious artifice, yet it is rarely didactic and always powerful...
...post-war generation invented the taste for mass-produced, disposable culture that we take for granted nowadays--a taste that even extends to our view of history. Where once the news media tried to place the news in a broad historical perspective, the closest they come today is producing specials on which Geraldo Rivera builds the public to a frenzy in anticipation of unlocking Al Capones' subletted crawlspace...
Solution: Harvard should offer a course in dealing with solicitors in the Square--something like; "Beggars 104: Vexing the Solicitor in a Post-War Industrial Economy. And Especially that Annoying Guy In Front of Bay Banks...
Worst defeat administered to Harvard by a former captain of Harvard's best post-war team (21-3-2, 1962-'63): Yale's Tim Taylor...