Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...literature is akin to the failure of socialist realist literature. Art and ideology are not incompatible when either the art is crafty enough to slip the dogma in unobtrusively, or the ideology is sufficiently original and interesting to justify being dramatized. But in Aphra. the writing doesn't shine, and most of the ideas just aren...
...EARTH SHINE by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. 73 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $5.75. Maundering on about the moon launch and a trip she took to Africa, the author searches for miracles-and too easily finds them. She is much given to expostulation...
...once and explode into space") and these disjunct moods clash to disengage the viewer. And isn't there something obscene in playing Jimi Hendrix's "If 6 was 9" while Wyatt and Billy shoot past the shacks of the Deep South's black population ("If the sun refuse to shine / I don't mind. I don't mind / If the mountains fell in the sea / Let it be, it ain't me / All right, 'cos I got my own world to look through / And I ain't gonna copy...
...season. Among the most ambitious is a production of David Copperfield starring Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams and Dame Edith Evans. The most regal spectacular from CBS will be Royal Family, a peek at Queen Elizabeth and her kin. Jacques Cousteau's undersea documentaries will continue to shine...
...cafe which seem Expressionist: the hero wanders through the shadow-filled darkness barred from light, warmth, security. But the stove, like the stage at the end, gives the light a different meaning. Light is the core of the Romantic being, whether sexual (Dietrich, whose skin and hair shine) or metaphysical (the fire in the stove). Janning's pursuit of light, though it leads him into humiliation and death greatens his soul. Sternberg's emphasis on light-attraction over darkness' terror, on personal triumph in the middle of degradation, are Romantic themes whose Christian roots are fundamentally opposed to German Expressionism...