Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goldman, who adapted the screenplay from his 1966 Broadway drama, can hardly be blamed for that, but he does not even seem to know who the real James Goldman is. Sometimes he seems to be a swaggering Elizabethan playwright whose rhetorical sword never gets out of its scabbard. "The sky is pocked with stars," sighs Henry. "Has my willow turned to poison oak?" he inquires of his mistress. At other times, Goldman is an anachronistic historian. "It's 1183, and we're all barbarians," announces the Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn). Often Goldman is simply...
...City. Using discotheques, squad rooms and pool halls, he creates a tense atmosphere of violence that encloses the action like a straitjacket. Eastwood, who has hitherto displayed nothing more than a capacity for iron-jawed belligerency in a series of Italian-made westerns, performs with a measure of real feeling in the first role that fits him as comfortably as his tooled leather boots...
...odds, George Orwell is the most unlikely culture hero to emerge in the '60s. The ideological passions that rent the Red '30s, strewing literary corpses and real bodies over the Marxist battlefield, leave the current generation cold. Yet this minor English novelist (Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter) is now accepted generally in England and the U.S. as a major prophet for his political journalism, for his anti-Stalinist fable Animal Farm (1945), and for the political-science-fiction shocker...
...Orwell, political issues were moral issues. He understood that peace and social justice would descend on the world, if at all, from a moral impulse, and where was that impulse to come from? Not from the "self-justifying complacent hypocrisy of the boiled rabbits. . .of the left intelligentsia." The real problem of the West, as he saw it, was to preserve mankind's ethical values- honor, mercy, justice, respect for others -in the face of an almost universal disappearance of a belief in the immortality of the soul. Being naturally a good man, he was a good humanist...
Expanding the Faculty might force the meetings out of the picturesque but already overcrowded room in University Hall. "One thinks rather sadly about having to leave the room," Wilcox says, but the real issue, he, Ford, and Dunop agree is whether meetings of the whole Faculty would still be administratively workable. "At some point in time we have to cease to be self-governing," Wilcox says, "the town meetings have to end and we have to switch to some kind of Faculty senate." That is a shift, though, that the Faculty will probably be very reluctant to make...