Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come from the Soviet Zone, some of them commuting each day. When the Wall went up, about 1,000 students still lived in East Berlin. A "large number," as one official warily puts it, have hurdled the Wall "by the most adventurous ways conceivable." What they find is a profound change since August. "Everybody has become much more serious," says one teacher. "The students seem to be braver, or perhaps just less nervous. The Wall has unified...
...Griffith among the supreme creators of cinema. Rashomon (1952) introduced him to U.S. audiences as a powerful ironist. The Magnificent Seven (1956) demonstrated his mastery of movies as pure movement. Ikiru (1960), one of the screen's great spiritual documents, revealed him as a moralist both passionate and profound. Throne of Blood, a resetting of Macbeth among the clanking thanes and brutish politics of 16th century Japan, is a visual descent into the hell of greed and superstition, into the gibbering darkness of the primitive mind. It is a nerve-shattering spectacle of physical and metaphysical violence, quite...
...editor of American Heritage* is not concerned with the white man's inevitable victory but with the red man's valor in inevitable defeat. To the white pioneers, his "patriot chiefs" were hostile "bad Indians." To Josephy, they seem nine "good and brave men,'' whose profound sense of human dignity and love for their own people make them national heroes in the impartial eyes of history. Some of them were warriors, some statesmen; all, says Josephy, who knows his Indians, were tragic figures, "as much a part of our heritage as any of our other heroes...
...this is an encouraging issue of Comment. If the articles are not smooth or profound, they do at least grapple with current events and provoke thought. And that is no small service...
Macario. The black-and-white magic of the motion-picture camera is artfully employed in this Mexican adaptation of B. Traven's profound little fable about the woodcutter who sups with Death and discovers the inevitable consequences...