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...dynamic possession of them. We lose something every time Nixon makes a speech, or a Vietnamese hamlet is secured, or a superhighway inaugurated, a tinderbox subdivision implanted. We gain something each time we walk around a garden, rediscover a color or notice a refraction, see a movie by Sternberg or Renoir, vivify a remembrance, or enjoy a great work of music. There is an intense beauty in moving among this America of sloths in the avantagarde's mood of incorruptible hostility...
Jack Stein, Germanic Lang. and Lit.; Shlomo Z. Sternberg. Mathematics; George Wald, Biology; Calvert Watkins '54, Linguistics; Harrison White, Social Relations; E. Bright Wilson Jr., Chemistry; James Q. Wilson, Government...
...historical catalogues masquerading as critical history. The stories are fast and funny, the cast of characters incomparable: Brownlow discusses many people of whom we knew much too little -- Allan Dwan, Charles Rosher, Louise Brooks (who was I think the screen's most beautiful actress), Abel Gance, and Josef von Sternberg, to name a few. The many fascinating production stills are superbly reproduced, largely hitherto unanthologized, and consequently render the book an invaluable as well as significant reference
Turning to camera styles, those conflicts quickly established in a melodrama, for example, allow a director like Hitchcock to bare to an audience the senses and emotions of a character through cutting, just as romantic abstraction allow a Sternberg to light experimentally with a daring inconceivable in plainer films. Themes and preoccupations as serious as these would be substantially unbearable treated in the context of everyday life--all films would resemble Judgment At Nuremberg. And, just as Poe and Hawthorne made their statements through the heightened reality of romance, the master film-makers are invariably liberated by the specialized contexts...
...Hart), wears a tuxedo, goes to college, talks in TV commercial slogans. Bruce's friends are Harry (Nathan Taylor), who likes to screw girls, and Erica (Barbara Lanckton), who goes to bed with Harry and later slits her wrists when the world becomes incomprehensible. Intruding among them is Harry Sternberg (Jerry Winters), who is married, worth $15 million, and presumably Jewish. In other words, the playwright's conception of a non-conformist. Naturally, when Harvy starts talking about giving away his money in exchange for friendship, the others consider him a bit strange. Not until the white-suited attendants arrive...