Word: visions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power struggle' taking place in China," he argues, "as of all such 'power struggles' is power over death." The symbol of immortality linking Mao with the mass agents of upheaval is the Revolution. As an old man facing death, he has seized on his political work and vision as his connection with Chinese history. The knowledge that they will outlive him allows him to face death, and the threat of their corruption stimulates an almost paranoid response--a need to obliterate all enemies and an emphasis on absolute purity. It is this purity of vision which Mao is forcing...
STEPS, by Jerzy Kosinski. Acts of cruelty and voyeurism unfold in a series of episodes that are bound together by the author's private vision of inhumanity...
...observes, the finished fresco had to be made solid and impressive with all its forms and symbols differentiated and understandable. Patrons expected such qualities. But in the preliminary sketch, the artist was working for the moment-and thus shares with the viewer the freshness and spontaneity of his initial vision...
...woefully abused. Barbette Tweed's Cordelia is appropriately sweet and good; Patricia Elliott as Regan and Marilyn Lightstone as Goneril are properly serpentine. Only Stacy Keach disappoints, by failing into smirky stage-villain mannerisms as Gloucester's bastard son Edmund. His performance misses the point of Shakespeare's transcendent vision which makes earthly villainy pale before the terrors meted out to men by fate...
Presumably, though Mrs. Ellmann stops here, when the imagination of the multitude seizes on this world view women's minds will be finally liberated. But even overlooking the fragility of this vision of a non-struggling, non-judging society, problems arise. Everyone can't groove passively on the complexity of reality; someone will have to make decisions and run things--and it is then that we will have women factory managers and women Presidents; men's minds will function on higher levels...