Word: soullessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caine Mutiny. Edward Dmytrik, one of the Hollywood Ten, was also the one who relented, named names, and returned to a soulless, lucrative Hollywood career. He directed this film of the Herman Wouk bestseller, produced by the indefatigable Stanley Kramer, and it ends up as an Eisenhower-culture fantasy; the Jewish lawyer gets to ask, in the final moments. Where all of Captain Queeg's mutinous underlings were when Queeg was fighting--right from WWII's beginning--to prevent his grandmother from being turned into a soap-bar. Bogart is Queeg, the psychotic captain of the U.S.S. Caine...
...ethic, people will still work to live, but fewer will live only to work. As Albert Camus put it: "Without work all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies." It will be a long while, if ever, before men figure out ways to make the work of, say, a punch-press operator or a file clerk soul-enriching. While waiting for that millennium-which may require entirely new forms of work -bosses who expect loyalty from their employees should try to satisfy their demands for more freedom, more feeling of participation and personal responsibility...
...stomach churning Permance Friday considerably improves the schedule, with Peter Yale's entertaining Bullitt, and Arthur Penn's archetypal American love story. Bonnir and Clyde Sunday and Monday make for a return to drek, as the Perrys's strident Diars of a Mad Housewife plays with polarishes slick and soulless Rosemary's Baby Call...
Opponents range from right-wing Tories and M.P.s with farming and fishing constituencies to left-wingers who see the Market as just that-a soulless bazaar dedicated only to profits and consumption. The most vocal opponent of all is Enoch Powell, the leading Tory right-winger, who has been traveling throughout the Six to explain why a majority of Britons feel "a repugnance" toward joining the EEC. Says Powell: "The principal events which have placed their stamp upon our consciousness of who we are were the very ones in which we have been alone, confronting a Europe that was lost...
Listen. There is no compromise with a machine. You cannot talk Peace and Love to a human or a robot whose every federal bureaucratic impulse is soulless, heartless, humorless, lifeless, loveless...