Word: saxonism
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...Arcy traced the movement through the "extravagant language of the Germans, Nietzsche, Jaspers, and Heidegger and the more lucid French prose of Sartre and Camus. Meanwhile, Anglo-Saxon philosophy, intent upon 'linguistics,' fiddled while Rome burned...
...Wallach, Karl Malden, and baby-blond newcomer Carrol Baker. Kazan's direction is outstanding, but Tennessee Williams' contributions to the film are weak. In the suburbs. The Rainmaker involves Lancaster, Hepburn (the elder), and drought in a mildly engaging evening. It rains, after a while. At The Saxon...
...whom had been arrested in one big countrywide swoop early last month (TIME, Dec. 17), included 23 whites, 105 Negroes, 21 Asians and seven mixed-blood "coloreds." They were clergymen, doctors, lawyers, educators and trade unionists, and their real offense was not treason as it is understood in Anglo-Saxon law but bitter opposition to the apartheid racist policies of Premier Johannes Strydom. Under South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act. anyone who aims at "the encouragement of feelings of hostility between European and non-European" can be declared a Communist-and therefore, presumptively, a traitor...
...their beachhead near the place they came to call Vera Cruz. The notion persists that the Spanish conquest of the New World was a cruel and disgraceful business. Two new books may do something to destroy what Salvador de Madariaga has called "an article of faith" in the Anglo-Saxon world-"that Spain means cruelty and oppression...
Puritan into Purist. A painter friend of Hopper's, Guy Pene du Bois, pinpointed his genius way back in 1931: "Hopper denies none of the Anglo-Saxon attributes which are so strongly planted in his character. He has built an esthetic which expresses them directly. He has turned the Puritan in him into a purist, turned moral rigors into stylistic precisions." Du Bois' prophetic conclusion: "He will make many of the 'great' moderns seem like funny little reciters of fairy tales...