Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...source of trouble is that The Wall is an adaptation, something replanted in alien, resisting soil. With The Wall, the spatial element is an essential 'one, which the stage, unlike the cinema, cannot convey. The Wall in the theater proves neither personal in appeal nor panoramic in effect; it is too diffused to have impact as a story, too restricted for vast horror as a scene. A Diary of Anne Frank, by remaining the chronicle of a girl and confining its tragedy to a garret, could expand a family's fate into that of an entire race...
...profound emotional driving force behind the demand for equality, dignity, and independence. The white man's rule has been lauded in many articles and speeches and there is gratitude for the extensive experience of self-government which Nigeria has been given, but there is also abhorrance of alien colonial domination. While Sir Abubakar could claim that Nigeria's planned progress to independence was "unparalleled in the annals of history," it must not be forgotten that colonialism leaves deep and abiding scars...
...sending a series of movies to New York which amounted to little other than propagandistic harangues (with the Bolshoi thrown in to keep things clean), present us with a warm, deeply moving, and totally human film. This is difficult to reconcile with our concept of a culture that is alien, coldly technological, and unconcerned with problems not directly relating to the Soviet State. So we describe it as a miracle, an artistic exception that proves the rule which we feel comfortable believing in; and, finally we want to conclude that it is above politics...
There is nothing alien about The Cranes are Flying. It is a sympathetic, vibrant film, enriched by almost poetic photography and poignant music. Political but not doctrinaire, it serves to indicate that the Soviet political experience is not totally foreign and incomprehensible to Americans, and that the Russian fear of war is a very real and understandable fact. It is also heartening to see Soviet culture view itself with a little lightness, instead of repeating the more familiar encomiums...
...lawyer. Strangers is a grim little book but an uncompromisingly honest one. Author Memmi confines himself to a careful, patient piling up of telling detail and harsh, spare dialogue that conveys its own message: love, intelligence and good will are not enough when caught in the blind struggle between alien cultures...