Word: temperedness
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There were disturbing Labor Day incidents last week in Hartford, Conn., Camden, N.J., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In the present calm context, they seem somehow atavistic-only smaller recurrences in lesser cities of the convulsions that racked major metropolises much earlier. The whites and blacks of minor urban centers are...
Koumiko Muroaka is a woman, who, we are told, Marker "met by accident" when he was filming the Tokyo Olympics. She is apolitical, extremely beautiful, highly independent, and, Marker insists, representative of nothing other than herself. The film consists of Marker's visions of Tokyo, his visions of Koumiko, his...
The broader the parody, the bigger the self. Wayne has been honing and buffing that self in some 250 pictures ?mostly westerns?for 40 years. He has become the essential American soul that D. H. Lawrence once characterized as "harsh, isolate, stoic and a killer." Superficially his films have...
You later lament that "self-indulgence could turn free universities into a travesty of education in which 'rapping' replaces research, and reason gives way to sensuality." That's not what we want and we doubt that it will happen. But we would like to include some rapping...
Foreign Communist reaction was an indication of both the Soviet Union's waning authority and the villainy of the deed. Twelve years earlier, in the much bloodier suppression of the Hungarian uprising, nearly every Communist Party in the world had supported the Soviet action. This time every major foreign party...