Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strong Breed delves into the dark and obscure realm of tribal taboos. Exorcism and witchcraft flicker along the edges of the action, but the convoluted flashbacks of a meandering plot never indicate exactly how and why. The core of the play concerns a teacher-stranger (Scott) who is out of sympathy with the annual tradition of a sacrificial human scapegoat known as a "carrier," but who lacks sufficient nerve and emancipation to fight the ancient tribal custom...
Dispassionately, he records that social and intellectual snobbery was her worst defect, and he notes with a stranger's eye "a streak of incongruous archness in her humor which is almost ladylike and very disconcerting." Woolf mentions friendships, but the reader feels no warmth. He writes most affectionately of a marmoset named Mitz (the gift of a Rothschild), which rode on his shoulder on a tour of Hitler's Germany. The monkey stole the show and distracted the Brownshirts from Woolf's culpable Jewishness...
...soul is to know itself it must look into a soul: the stranger and enemy, we've seen him in the mirror...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Stranger on the Run, filmed as part of the "World Premiere" series especially for TV, with Henry Fonda, Michael Parks, Anne Baxter, Dan Duryea and Sal Mineo...
...Taylor) affair with her husband's immediate superior at a Georgia army base. It swoops in on an enlisted man's strange infatuation with Miss Taylor, swipes briefly at the mental illness of the superior officer's wife, and finally lands on the theme it ends with, the even stranger, growing infatuation of Miss Taylor's husband (Marlon Brando) with the enlisted man. Reflections even injects a slight dose of anti-Semitism, in much the way that Mort Sahl used to ask if there were any groups he had not offended. A sort of something-for-everyone approach to film...