Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lowell: George J. Bornstein, George A. Collier, Edward W. Copeland, 3rd, John Brooks Ferebee, Michael S. Horn, David L. Horowitz, Jay H. Jasanoff, Andrew J. Nathan, Dale E. Peterson, Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr., George Max Salger, Michael W. Schwartz, Stephen E. Schwartz, Richard B. Stone, Paul L. Weiden...
...existence; many each week are still fleeing the mainland. In Macao, where he sought refuge after swimming six hours across the Pearl River delta, a handsome, husky-looking youth from Kwangtung province shrugged last week: "What can you do? How can you move? It's like a heavy stone crushing...
...himself the arbiter of other people's lives?" he pleads-but the chorus gives him no answer. The children's innocent voices haunt him. The adult chorus damns him: "Cursed be the shepherd who leads his flock to death," the people cry, and they burn his books, stone his palace, cast his ring into the sea. Then the blinding answer comes in a climactic sweep of music: death's enriching lesson comes only to those who have suffered the pain of their conscience...
Church bells ring on a winter Sunday in a Swedish coastal village. The devout -they number just nine-assemble in the drafty little stone building. The pastor (Gunnar Björnstrand) serves Communion as if he were an actor in a play near the end of a long run-withdrawn, saying the words without compassion. The contrast between this remoteness and the fervor on the faces of the communicants as they receive the Host and the Cup states Bergman's theme: a vain search for faith down ways that are closed. Besought, after the service, to counsel a fisherman...
...film, which shows bushmen hunting a giraffe, was praised by the late Harvard anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn, as "the most remarkable anthropological film I have ever seen. It takes the viewer as close as he can ever hope to get to the life of the Stone...