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THIS IS one example of Yevtushenko's social realism that comes off. But nowhere, of course, do we read about life in Russia or for instance, about the invasion into Czechoslovakia. That is the price he pays for his freedom. The delivery of this, purposefully perhaps, was abrasive, softened somewhat by the chorus repeating selected lines. Then they burst into a Hair-like version of the poem. Heard were strains of rock, gospel and jazz--all thrown in for whatever measure the audience might think good. With a solid round of booing and scattered applause, intermission arrived...
...with obligatory lectures and self-study sessions. Until last December, not a single new literary work of any kind other than a few poems or short stories eulogizing Mao had been published in China for nearly five years. Operas, films and drama are all propaganda pieces of socialist realism. Life in China may be stable and secure-but it is also, from a Western viewpoint, almost unbearably confined and boring...
...uncover a list of contradictions; a brave man and great filmmaker, or a genius at political compromise and a mediocre director, even a matinee idol or consummate actor. During the post-World War II decade in a battered, guiltridden Italy, he was in the vanguard of the New Realism, and thereby a prominent figure under attack by his country's outraged government, clergy and film critics. In critical circles outside Italy, his cinematic results were considered brilliant (Shoeshine, 1946; Bicycle Thief, 1948; Umberto D, 1950); the ensuing wrath he incurred because of these disturbing documents of the hopelessness of Italy...
...Sica could also make less promising films. During the later 50's and 60's his art degenerated into trite moralistic statements that crossed the fine line between his somberly human neo-Realism and the more impersonal symbolism of documentaries-with-a-message. As for the Liberal Catholic and social critic, his heroic posturing proves something of an over-compensation for the remorse engendered by playing a confidence game of his own during the German Occupation...
Yeats' rough beast again? No, Kazan's - a shaggy stage prop animated by mechanical grunts and dramatizing the sort of pseudo realism that Vivien Leigh may have had in mind when she once described Kazan as "the kind of man who sends a suit out to be cleaned and rumpled...