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Burgess describes this fiction as an "entertainment" rather than a novel. In a dust-jacket blurb he announces that the discovery of the unconscious, the possibility of universal socialism and man's ability to live in outer space are the century's "three greatest events." The End of...
It combined three basic elements: Chekhovian sensibility, with that playwright's rueful portrait of the hero as antihero; the Freudian irrational unconscious, with the wayward id buffeting the will-less ego; and the romantic temperament, which Classicist Gilbert Murray called "the glorification of passion - any passion-just because it...
In another scene, one of the best in the series, black-costumed Nazi "special-action squads" herd dozens of Russian Jews-played, of course, by the all-purpose Yugoslavs-into a mammoth grave, where they are to be shot. As the cameras started to roll, the peasants began to wail...
A more savage scene was played out on 14th Street. A gang pulled one white from his car and beat him unconscious.
Casablanca is exactly 40 years old. It opened in New York in late fall, 1942. At the time, the real Germans were locked around Stalingrad, and the French scuttled their fleet in Toulon Harbor rather than surrender it to the Reich. In Hollywood's version, civilization was dressed in...