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Among all the landmarks of history, from Wittenberg or Waterloo to Lexington or West Berlin, none have burned more deeply into 20th century consciences than Hiroshima. With every U.S. or Soviet nuclear explosion, ban-the-Bomb demonstrators the world over chant the name of the first city to be hit by an atomic bomb. Hiroshima is visited by 2,000,000 tourists a year; its chilling museum of atomic horrors has been massively and masochistically documented in endless magazine and newspaper articles, TV features and movies. Seventeen years after the first atomic blast, the world has seemingly forgotten about...
...order of Augustinian Eremites in Erfurt. Subsequently he is shown on the day he has significant difficulty saying his first Mass; he wrangles with his father, confers with his friend and guide, Johann von Staupitz, nails up his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, speaks forcefully to Cardinal Cajetan, the papal legate, and so on, until in the end he symbolically holds his young child in his arms and tells him: "Don't be having dreams so soon, my son. They'll be having you soon enough...
...demonic visions to irrational fervor-but nearly all are glossed over. With hardly a suggestion of the poet who wrote A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, John Osborne concentrates on the crude-voiced Luther whose notable preoccupation with bodily functions produced the line: "If I break wind in Wittenberg, they smell it in Rome...
...Wittenberg College Eric Sevareid, broadcaster and news analyst Litt.D...
...temptation, Martin Luther once said: "You can't prevent the birds flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair." With this for his text, Swedish Director Ingmar (Torment) Bergman*has preached in this picture a sermon on sensuality that the pastor of Wittenberg would scarcely have said amen to. But the Swedes, whose notions about sex have changed since Luther's time, were tickled pink with the picture. So were a lot of European critics...