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Here, this writer should probably admit his biases. He speaks as a lifelong liberal, appalled since coming to political consciousness by the kind of Stalinoid bullying and terror inherent in Polonsky's chilling remark. Also as a lifelong cineast who came to aesthetic consciousness as Kazan was achieving his unprecedented (and so far unduplicated) status as the leading director in both theater and movies. And, finally, as one befriended by Kazan a decade ago, when I began producing a TV documentary about...
Wajda has said that Danton represents the West today, Robespierre the Stalinoid East. The film may even be a more intimate parable. Perhaps Danton is Lech Walesa, Robespierre General Jaruzelski. Certainly it shows revolutionary politics to be, as one French intellectual commented, "a pact with death." But however one reads it, Wajda's is a film of high dramatic power, at once a mature study of the revolutionary mentality and an absorbing intellectual spectacle. -By Richard Schickel
...dotty Dowager Empress Tz'u Hsi, diverting funds allotted for naval construction, the imperial plaisanterie occupies 700 acres and attracts huge numbers of Chinese rubbernecks. And then there are the Ming Tombs and, a few hours away, the Great Wall. Otherwise the city is nondescript and marred by Stalinoid architecture...
...boyars and the duplicitous Prince Kurbsky, who tries to destroy Ivan by poisoning his queen. After her death, the Czar's madness grows, and with it his use of the dreaded oprichniki (a primitive kind of secret police) to suppress both boyar and peasant revolts. Ivan's Stalinoid cruelties have always represented something of an ideological embarrassment to the Kremlin. Grigorovich, in a program note, argues unconvincingly that the real heroes of the ballet are the Russian people, "who withstood all the ordeals, survived and emerged victorious...
...that the curriculum and the academic subjects are all important and that they can learn more in theclassroom that matters than outside it. This tends to leave the initiative, in college journalism, to those who have some ideological axe to grind, and may be one partial explanation for the Stalinoid complexion of a number of college papers (of course matters stand differently where there is a journalism school, when work on the college paper is a form of academic activity). In other words, what I find among students here is that they don't take journalism, as such, seriously...