Word: servant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costume epic with an unusual theme. Its hero, quite as usual, is Charlton Heston, playing a misspent 11th-century knight who falls heir to a small and dreary Norman fief on the coast of the North Sea. "There's a strangeness in this place," Heston remarks. And his servant Richard Boone nods sagely, like a man who knows a godforsaken frontier town when he sees one. Heston's castle is a tacky stronghold, one lone tower surrounded by sullen villagers and under constant threat of attack by swarms of large blond barbarians wearing identical wigs...
KING AND COUNTRY. Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) takes an excruciating look at a World War I deserter (Tom Courtenay) who is doomed to die, and at the anguished officer (Dirk Bogarde) who is doomed to defend...
...Servant With a Song. Whether the center can do it any better remains unproved. Some church leaders are critical of what seems to be its blithe as sumption that God endorses everything about the Negro freedom movement, from Martin Luther King's S.C.L.C. to LeRoi Jones (last spring the center's entire staff and student body dropped everything to march at Selma). Moreover, while its 127 trainees have unquestionably been shaken by their experience there, some questions about the center's relevance remain: not all ministers are summoned to be worker-priests, and there is a vital...
...supernatural means, the idea of art as a means of grace. Prospero's salvation comes though works as well as fortune--the fortune that thrusts him from his study as well as the fortune that brings his enemies to his shore. To characterize Prospero, like Leontes, as the servant of his random thoughts, is to seriously mistake...
...Miss Julie, whose morbid Freudian thickets "fitted me; I am fascinated with death." The Scandinavian setting, too, suited his Norwegian heritage, but he and Librettist Kenward Elmslie figured that the drama might have more impact if transformed into a love tragedy involving a Deep South heiress and her Negro servant. Timely and all that. Off to New Orleans they went to soak up some local color, only to belatedly discover that it "just wouldn't work." How about changing the locale to Hollywood, with the conflict between an actress and her understudy? "No," said New York City Opera Director...