Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cranes are Flying describes the shattering effect of war in highly personal terms. Director Mikhail Kalatozov presents us with a young couple deeply in love. There is no making-out on the screen, Boris and Veronica exchange no profound glances of desire; in fact there are no cinematic cliches which we are supposed to translate as meaning Love. But there is an affection between these people that is simply expressed, and simple to comprehend. And then there is war, and Boris is a volunteer...
...Warner) is a friendly, fairly shrewd but not really profound look at some inhabitants of a small Oklahoma town. The time is the early 19205. and this is William Inge country-several hundred miles safely north of the swamps of Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers. but still south of that region where Booth Tar-kington's characters inhabit a perpetual fishworm and firecracker July. The people in the film made from Inge's 1957 Broadway hit have problems, but they do not include necrophilia, cannibalism or self-mutilation with garden shears; the difficulties are the sort a strong...
What may well speed the "plodding gait of the law." says S.R.C.. is the profound effect of Negro sit-in strikes on the South. S.R.C. considers them "the most important development of 1960." With an impressive number of lunch-counter settlements to their credit, the strikers succeeded "in causing white Southerners to see Negro Southerners as individuals." Such is the crux of the case for school desegregation. "What so many dime stores have acknowledged is what the lawsuits have asked, and still ask, the school systems to practice...
...world that's so troubled and so insecure," says a vice president of a music publishing firm trying to make it sound psychologically profound, "teenagers find that the only thing that's eternal and everlasting is love after death." Since that's what the young are supposed to want, that's what they are getting. The more violent the death, the more violent the passion pouring from the nation's jukeboxes. Keens one kid on Teen Angel, an M-G-M release...
...quality of competing with honor, courage and character. Says Calvin Johnson (no kin), a longtime friend of Johnson's and a doctor now in training to be a medical missionary: "I've never met anyone like him, in medicine, the clergy, wherever. He has a profound respect for other people, and a profound humbleness...