Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These esoteric oddities remind one that Brecht wrote this unusual play forty years ago, when he was in his early twenties. The young dramatist's Communism was as yet embryonic: The Chicago slums provide the location for his play, but only occasionally does he instruct his well-fed audience to "Look life straight in the eye." The play is less political and more metaphysical than maturer works like Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle...
...understand." To understand the movie intimately you must be Elia Kazan or one of his relatives. America, America is a gigantic home movie, constructed from family stories about migration to the Promised Land. Kazan himself was born in Turkey, and he fervently wants his film to remind us "that we are all immigrants and that we all came here looking for something." The pity is that he does not begin to make explicit what that something is. As a scenerio writer, Kazan fails to communicate the dreamlike lure America holds for the foreign-born. Facts come through with splendid candor...
...more the evidence seems to point in one direction, the more important it is to remind ourselves that everyone must be assumed innocent until proved guilty. To do otherwise is to adopt the logic of a lynch...
Staack's success is unquestionably due to his skill at relating Biblical themes to modern spiritual needs. He is most interested in proving to his listeners the ecumenical value of Old Testament study. "I want to remind people that the Old Testament was the only Bible Jesus himself used," he says. "I want to remind them that Jews and Chris tians have the Old Testament in common, and that examining it for its meaning may help us understand that j we are all spiritual Semites. Finally, I want to help Christians regain the heritage of the Old Testament that...
...such an edifice as "a building, stone, pillar, or the like, erected in memory of the dead." Neitzche, you may remember, pronounced the Almighty's demise. Does Johnson concur? Some, for their own nefarious political purpose, may insinuate that he shares the philosopher's conviction. These ill-wishers may remind the voters of that compelling syllogism from Thus Spake Zarathustra: "If there were Gods, then how could I bear to be no God. Therefore, there are no Gods...