Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rage is backyard rocket building, but only fools mention the rockets that blew up, assuming they ever got built. Another gaffe is to boast of having organized a local chapter of the International Flat Earth Society. Stanford rejected one such pre-Columbian after having second thoughts about his intellect. On the other hand, the Stanford authorities suggested the right tone to take when they beamed at a budding scholar who claimed that he had collected and counted 50,000 ants...
...torpid humor: "At the stage when most men prosper, I live in Philadelphia on three dollars a day." The musical score might have led Van Gogh to dispose of his remaining ear, and a brigade of crippled pigeons could have performed better dance numbers. There is a degradation of intellect, taste and dignity about the entire musical. The men involved were the architects of a great republic, men of passion, probity and reason. Touched with some impalpable and mysterious inspiration, they proved to be the golden brood of 18th century Enlightenment. To the nation, which was a gleam of courage...
Scott was, by then, visiting a businessman named Nathan once or twice a week regularly. He had met Nathan in late August, in a bar. At that period in his life, Scott was telling everybody the Truth. Eloquently. He was making an effort to quit feeling embarrassed by his intellect, overcome his shyness, and to really help humanity. So when Nathan offered to buy him a beer, Scott smiled brightly and said...
...closeup of Liv Ullman or Max von Sydow asking, "Why is this happening to us? Why doesn't it make any sense?" But this is precisely what Bergman avoids. For the first time we can walk out of a film of his with our intellect numb, our body vibrating...
Perosona and Hour of The Wolf, his two previous films, showed the full-blown nightmare of the mind. The intellect is most horrible of all terrors, because there is no escape from it. Both these films showed people's brains driving them out of their minds. Every detail of time and space was enlarged: in Hour of the Wolf Max von Sydow measures out one minute in the dark and shows us how unbearably long it can be; in Persona Bergman constantly shows us detail of the two women's faces, so that when their personalities fuse we have already...