Word: realists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Algiers is in the great tradition of the first neo-realist masterpieces, Rosselini's Open City and Visconti's La Terra Trema. But where those two films dealt entirely with killing and oppression of the weak by Fascists and reactionary capitalists, the killing of innocent people in Algiers is committed mostly by the NLF, Pontecorvo's heroes. In accepting the slaughter of hundreds of citizens, guilty only in their complacent acceptance of a derelict social structure, Pontecorvo emphasizes the validity of necessary social upheaval, regardless of its price. Each death becomes not a crime of the NLF but the tragic...
...other characters say several times: "There's something about the girl." All the rest is left to the actress who plays Joan. She must make the audience believe in the other characters' phenomenal belief in her. This, Diana Sands fails to do. She stresses Joan the outward realist and scants Joan the inner mystic. Her voice can be heard, and a trifle too stridently, but her "voices" are mute...
...lead as the city's-and the nation's-handsomest and most dynamic showcase for contemporary U.S. art. Under the directorship of scholarly Lloyd Goodrich, the nation's ranking authority on Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, the Whitney has played host to artists as varied as Realist Andrew Wyeth and Environmentalist Louise Nevelson, while its annual displays of works by younger artists continue to spotlight the latest trends. Last week the Whitney announced that Goodrich, now 70 and with the museum since its founding in 1930, will retire...
...realist," Clayton explains, "I've recognized my responsibility to adapt to changing times." He is still fundamentally conservative. "We knew he would protect clearly defined Constitutional rights," says an N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund lawyer, "but we also knew he wouldn't make law." Clayton agrees, adding that "case law must come, if it comes at all, at the appeals level." He is now moving to that level...
...result was a drab series of social-realist novels with such command-economy titles as his 1935 potboiler. Without Stopping for Breath. Then Ehrenburg reported the Spanish Civil War for Izvestia in vivid prose that made him Russia's leading journalist...