Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fleeing animals, the movie gallops toward terror and despair--and still the slapstick, only mildly successful in the begining, drags on. The last scenes are unabashed surrealism, as the whole second half of the show should have been. There are teasing ideas, of beauty and the beast and rebirth, among other things, that are the most delicate and satisfying form of symbolism. But there is too much of an attempt at humor, at slapstick tragedy...
Died. Dr. Mathilde Ludendorff, 89, bizarre German psychiatrist, famed throughout Europe in the early 1900s for her free-swinging approach to sex in such books as Erotic Rebirth, who later turned strident nationalist, blaming Germany's World War I defeat on Masons, Jesuits and, most particularly, Jews, and toured the country in flowing robes embroidered with Nordic symbols, preaching hate and accusing Hitler of being too far left; after pneumonia; in Tutzing, Germany...
...first scene, Matt Stanton, the hero, describes his immigrant passage across the Atlantic in midwinter, seven weeks of steady rain. The men and women in the fetid, icy hold were unhousebroken animals. Beslimed in his own filth-a symbolic rebirth-Matt rises from the hold to be dashed with the condescending baptism of the new world: "In America, we bathe." In the strangled fury of his pride, Matt learns a new commandment: "Get power. Without it, there can be no decency." There is precious little decency in Matt's struggle for power. He steals a mistress away from...
...PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD, by Peter Matthiessen. An educated North American Indian, who for years has fought a losing fight with the white man's values, goes native again among the South American Indians, and in the green womb of the Amazon finds a spiritual rebirth...
...recently had flown to Paris in his presidential Caravelle for medical treatment after a fall, turned on his benefactor to endorse Mitterrand. Jean Monnet, architect of the Common Market, backed Mitterrand as well, because he found De Gaulle's idea of Europe the "Europe of centuries past, a rebirth of the nationalist spirit that has brought tragedy to France and Europe." Even De Gaulle's first-ballot, right-wing opponent, Lawyer Tixier-Vignancour, joined the other three eliminated candidates in opposing De Gaulle. The most important of them, pro-Europe, Catholic Centrist Jean Lecanuet, could not quite...