Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...openly displayed and discussed. The next generation will be healthier for it, and if Freud and all the others were right, then perversion and pornography will decline as honesty and understanding increase. A time will come when all of the "shocking" literature, plays and movies of this epoch will seem archaic and naive-and terribly boring. This is not "liberation" at all. It is the development of a true normalcy. A development long overdue in this country...
...three principal characters (William Holden and Ernest Borgnine on one side, Robert Ryan heading the group out to stop them) are something of an exception to this. They seem to have more of ideal of what they are doing than the rest do, and Peckinpah shoots Holden and Borgnine in two-shot and has Ryan made up to look like Holden. They alone fight for dominance of the frame once the battle has begun, but they too are overcome once the battles get fully underway...
...join in.) As for myself, I'll delay a return visit till as close to my departure time as possible. For unless I can also convince the secretary at Charter Flights to see this production, I don't want to make the remaining weeks of summer school seem any longer than they already...
Shaplen's literary style, which rambles over many a back road, is occasionally illuminated by bright, incisive flashes. Describing Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk, Shaplen writes that ''his innate sense of showmanship and his graciousness as a host make his sporadic unveilings of the country seem like Happenings." Generally, as befits a man who has studied a depressing scene for more than 20 years, he is cautious, measured in his judgments, rarely hortatory. He does make hard and clear, however, what he regards as a notable danger. Rudely stated, it is that the U.S., which will probably...
Thus Tournier's book may seem to be one more demonstration-and a notably self-conscious and unconvincing one-of a mercantile society's well-known and often belabored shortcomings. Tournier intended some satirical comment on civilization's defects, of course, or why else so pointedly rewrite a tract in which the Western world is praised? What gradually dawns on the surprised reader is that the author has accomplished much more. As a 20th century author, Tournier is concerned with Defoe's implicit but largely unexplored theme, the development of a mind in isolation. With...