Word: righteousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Angelo and Isabella alone in the cast delve into their characters, and mine the subtleties of their scenes. Kirsten Giroux's dark-voiced Isabella is the best performance of the evening--she makes this occasionally self-righteous, all-too-correct role warm and sympathetic. James Kitendaugh plays Angelo as a thoughtful, principled man with too many layers of civilization smothering his emotions. As his control begins to go, the fidgeting he uses to signal his tense repression first accelerates and then disappears altogether, as he gives in to his desire...
...same idea is echoed forcefully by Bayard Rustin, the civil rights veteran, who condemns the "self-righteous, elitist neo-Malthusians who call for slow growth or no growth. The policies of these elitists would condemn the black underclass, the slum proletariat and rural blacks, to permanent poverty." Rustin contends that the curtailment of construction projects, factory expansions and farm ventures for environmental reasons already has cost many potential jobs for blacks. The only way that unemployed blacks can join the work force in a significant way, he argues, is for the economy to grow vigorously...
...faking it. The moral dilemma is an excuse for not being able to come up with a better ending, and it makes the movie very difficult to accept. If there is any sort of supernatural justice, if directors ever have to pay for exploiting old themes, for substituting self-righteous liberal indignity for imagination, then you should see Peter Weir float by any minute...
...friends who wonder why they aren't "out working." This is not to say that plenty of former "housewives" haven't averted their husbands' dinner calls and sought out more appealing lifestyles. The damage incurred on the other end has been serious, however--the fault of overzealous and self-righteous types who want everyone to conform...
...clear that they were, though. The week passed in a frenzy, all chants and demands and marches and late-night deadlines. Vignettes: Derek Bok's frozen smile as he crossed the Yard, bureaucratic calm amidst a self-righteous storm; Dan Steiner chatting with protestors on the steps of University Hall, a few left-over torches burning down after the year's most spectacular protest march; the bemused set to the jaws of the University policement covering the demos, unsure of how to handle these kids who, they were told but did not quite believe, might try to grab a building...