Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really, to fault delegates in this predicament for not boning up on the political significance of the platform. But it is ludicrous to presume, as the Republican Party would have America presume, that these delegates were more than fixtures. The comparison between the Republican and Democratic Conventions was so stark that the Republican theme of an "Open Door" convention dissolves into fantasy at the most cursory examination. Only tangential events like the aimless violence in Miami Beach's streets and bodily assaults on delegates could give credence to this theme by providing reason for a multitude of closed doors...
...alist realism". Rather there is careful attention to realistic detail, as in the first long shot of the old country house--with its peeling paint, creaking doors and evanescent charm. Even the interjection of pictures of denuded forest lands and starving children are in context. They portray the stark contrasts between the idle gentry and the destitute peasantry which underly Chekhov's sense of a passing...
...Japanese society. He directs transitions from one locale to another by introducing each new scene with a shot not only loaded with symbolism, but prolonged to the extent that it almost becomes a still. After the opening scene in Shimonoseki, the shift to Tokyo is indicated by the stark image of smokestacks against a smutty sky, and the title "an industrial neighborhood in Tokyo." Setting the mood for each episode with similarly fitting images, Ozu unrolls a cinematic parchment of Japanese prints, the black and white photography of the film heightening its formal links to traditional Japanese art. Each interior...
...most provocative sections of the study deal with what the authors call "misbelief"-various Lutheran attitudes that seem to be responsible for what they regard as serious Lutheran faults. In a much-publicized 1966 work, Christian Beliefs and Anti-Semitism, Sociologists Charles Clock and Rodney Stark maintained that orthodox Christian beliefs-measured by such doctrines as miracles, life after death and a personal evil force-lead circuitously to antiSemitism. The Lutheran survey, say its authors, shows to the contrary that Christian orthodoxy and anti-Semitism are not related, but that prejudice, including antiSemitism, is clearly linked to various kinds...
...Lutheran investigators say that Glock and Stark did not use correct standards for Christian orthodoxy, since belief in miracles, in life after death and a personal evil spirit is common to many religions. Instead, the Minneapolis researchers used a larger set of indices to define the "heart of Lutheran piety." These include a definite belief in a transcendent order of being (encompassing life after death and the miraculous) but centered strongly on a loving God who provides for man through the saving grace of Jesus Christ. This "Gospel-oriented" orthodoxy, as the authors call it, apparently produces greater compassion toward...