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...style that predominates in current high-art festival films (ones, by the way, that rarely get much exposure in U.S. movie houses) is minimalist. Based on the works of early masters like Carl-Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson, it follows certain rules, as restrictive as any Mennonite edicts: pare movie technique down to its essentials; show characters behaving, however mutely, rather than acting; make the viewer work for their epiphanies. This style has been responsible for many small, lugubrious films and -from directors who know how to make more or less -a few masterpieces. Silent Light is one of them...
...PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, Carl Theodor Dreyer...
...have someone who knows the debates and writing of that period exceptionally well.” Hall praised the breadth of Rosen’s intellectual interests, which has produced work on Georg Hegel and Immanuel Kant as well as more recent thinkers such as Theodor Adorno. At Harvard, Rosen will teach courses on Marxism and contemporary continental thought. He said he sees himself as helping to maintain a cross-Atlantic cultural exchange. “Being able to contribute to an American understanding of European tradition of thought at a time when clearly misunderstandings between Europe and America...
...DIED. STANLEY BERENSTAIN, 82, co-author and co-illustrator, with his wife, Jan, of the best-selling children's books that chronicle the everyday travails of the Berenstain Bear family; in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. After the couple submitted a manuscript in 1961 to Random House editor Theodor Geisel?better known as Dr. Seuss?The Big Honey Hunt became the first of some 250 books in the Berenstain Bears series, which have since sold some 300 million copies...
...surprised that Sudarshan was not given the prize when Glauber was.”Glauber was one of three physicists—the maximum number of people who can be recognized—who won the Nobel Prize, sharing it with fellow American John L. Hall and German physicist Theodor W. Hänsch.—Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...