Word: supper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adalen '31 is most deeply about the ineffable, invaluable quality of a single moment in the life of man, when a casual encounter or a supper at twilight is enclosed and enriched by the imminence of violent tragedy. Such scenes are framed in the shimmering light of a Swedish summer and seem idyllic, almost unworldly; but Widerberg handles the chaotic confrontation scene between workers and army troopers with a precise sense of brutality that proves that he is not entirely a romantic. The very gentleness and simplicity of much of the visual imagery-the names of Renoir and Monet...
They spent the night sitting on the floor, from right after supper until 2 a.m., hashing out how they would arrive at decisions about the curriculum. There were contingents that wanted a majority vote and some that wanted to elect a permanent leader and a representative body, but finally these ideas were thrown aside and the group decided to reach decisions only by consensus-that is, no decision would be made until it actually pleased everybody...
...BELL RANG, like a high school hall bell, and everyone got up and slowly walked away somewhere. I was hungry so I figured it was a bell for supper but I wasn't sure. So I missed supper. I was all alone on the long hall of O-2, except for the synthetic voice coming from...
...going loud and strong. It always went loud and strong. Television is an immensely important fact for mental hospitals. It provides an automatic something-to-do. If I'm just wandering around the ward or coming back from supper or from the bathroom, I'll have to pass the TV and since it provides constant change and because it's something that is acceptable to sit in front of while doing nothing it is tremendously attractive. You can almost fool yourself into thinking that you're watching TV. But really watching implies participation which means activity. And activity, as opposed...
...Father John Carmody, visits a planet where the inhabitants are only dimly aware that they have souls at all. He then prcceeds to instruct them, in one breathtaking passage, in the basic principles of the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, and the ritual of the Last Supper. As Carmody's spaceship moves away from the planet, the agnostic ship commander chides him. What the priest has done in his effort to instruct, says the captain, is to lay the foundations for a mythology in which the missionary himself may well become...