Word: potion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Puny on the Plain. Four centuries after the Spanish conquest, perhaps four out of seven million Peruvians still live in the Andes, speak the Quechua and Aymara of the Incas, play their mournful five-noted pipes of Pan and on festive occasions get falling drunk on tinka, a poisonous potion of cane alcohol, nicotine and cocaine. But the pressure for land has increased, and the ancient farming ayllus (communes) are disappearing. More & more, Andean man has hired out to haciendas or mines, or moved to coastal cities. When he descends to the Pacific, it becomes his turn to undergo...
...diluted love potion is not the only hoary element, though. For some reason, the third act starts off with an argument between a Catholic priest and the lover, who has been reading a communist journal. The padre's academic argument (there are only six pleasures of the flesh, but what fun you can have with the immortal soul) scarcely resolves the religious-materialist conflict...
...successful in his later film "Beauty and the Beast." But, unlike its successor, "The Eternal Return" asks the audience to accept its fairy tale as readily as if it were in today's headlines: "IRATE MATE SPRINGS LOVE TRAP--Wife and Lover Found Souped-up on Love Potion...
...will allow yourself the indulgence of some of Jean Cocteau's particular brand of photographic sensualness, which is the primary commodity of "The Eternal Return," you will probably have a big time. Otherwise, you may wish that Cocteau had never put the love potion in the medicine cabinet...
Editorial comment on Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" has proved too strong a potion for Quaker tastes. As a result the 68-year-old Phoenix, Swarthmore College newspaper, has been forced to suspend publication...