Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balance of the film is concerned with the family's plan to do Jack out of his inheritance, Jack's marriage to an actress (Carolyn Seymour) and his progress toward sanity. Surrendering for a time the identity of God, he becomes Jack the Ripper, murders his flirtatious aunt and makes an enormously successful speech in the House of Lords-a ringing call for a return to law, order and morality...
...knew my father/ My father knew Lloyd George," sung, ad infinitum, to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers. This play features a potty old retired general (Ralph Richardson), whose thought processes seem to have stopped around World War I, and his spry-spirited wife (Peggy Ashcroft). She is resisting progress in another way by making calm, matter-of-fact preparations to commit suicide if the government bulldozes a throughway across the baronial estate. It doesn't and she doesn't. This asthmatic little item would wheeze its way into oblivion but for the robust first aid continually administered...
Alas, the Promethean gift has come to appear cruelly ironic, if not demonic, to a post-technology age that possesses-or is possessed by-the ultimate fire: nuclear power. Today, weary hindsight makes "progress" seem a mocking, self-defeating process by which men promise to improve themselves and their planet right out of existence...
...Russia, the player plays the board rather than his opponent. Competitiveness becomes more pronounced in Western Europe and is rampant in the U.S. Whether a player plays the board or against his opponent becomes a finespun argument in the tens of thousands of chess games that are always in progress by mail. Biochemist Aaron Bendich, of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, summarizes his motivation: "I play as an intellectual exercise, and I don't see my opponent as an adversary. But there is an adversary-and that's me! If I lose and allow myself...
...denying that It's loaded with bigotry and rigidity. I left the place to escape such things. But this region tan's immune to them either. And somehow, things seem to be slowly working out down there. It's a different kind of progress, but it happens...