Word: recoiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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KOBAYASHI is looking for something more in his ghost stories than horror. His end is not an emotional recoil through shock but a sensuous participation in the imaginary. He appeals to our fascination not our fears, with the result that he achieves that rare creation, a fantasy without pretension...
...often it hears a Nixon argument tailored to a segment of the public. The curious paradox of Nixon is that even when he is intellectually prepared to act the statesman, he often explains himself through the inferior stratagems of the politician. Many who might rally to a policy recoil from the dissembling that accompanies it." In the end, says the editorial, "for all its underestimated qualities, the Nixon Administration falls short of the lift or the wisdom that the times require and the country longs...
...only "the reality of the reflection" and maintains a constant dialectic that makes his films argument rather than indoctrination. The Passion of Anna will admit no criticism into your experience of it. You must either embrace the Vision as "the reflection of reality," as Bergman intends, or else recoil from it and malign its director...
...Chekhov does not offer dogma, rancor, penitential bathos, clear expositions of readily identifiable social or personal problems. "The fire," he said, "burns in me slowly and evenly." He does not work from idea to speech and gesture. He cannot be dismissed as indifferent, pessimistic, morbid, or hopeful. So we recoil with impatience from these exhibitions of laughter and despair, muttering vaguely about melancholy, ineffectual people, and a possibly hopeful future...
Many young priests are simply crushed by years of unproductive waiting. Ordained in their 20s, they often have to wait decades for the kind of responsibility that can come to laymen in a matter of years. Others recoil from the fawning attitudes of lay Catholics, who treat them like embryonic saints. Asks Los Angeles Psychologist Carlo Weber, a former Jesuit: "Do you know how it feels to be spoken to in a set way: 'Yes, Father . . . good Father?so nice to have you here, Father'? Rotten, that's how. Nothing could be more deleterious to a personality...