Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Human Equation...
Widerberg maintains a constant ambiguity between surface and sign, opposing the artificiality of political rhetoric to the down-to-earthiness of human detail. The organic symbol of blood seeping into a white shroud mocks the high drama of red banners at the same time it confirms their political justification, as it pierces the pastels. And still its truth is only transitory: waving the bloody shirt gets Sweden into the mess of Social Democracy. "Equality has not been achieved," Widerberg comments in the final credits, and open end to a negative political critique...
...most ambitions work yet (befitting the Joycean title quote), but its subject matter jibed with our own quasi-idyllic mood. Korty, if anyone, would be able to give us what we thought we wanted, which wasn't a rigid truth or comforting formula, but an impregnable human warmth and beauty...
...carpet of grass and flowers. In a flood of crystalline blue light, lilies open in the sky to release their freight of music-making putti. "When I turn to flowers and trees," Runge once wrote, "it becomes clearer to me how in each plant is contained a certain human spirit, idea or feeling, and it is very clear to me that it must have originated in Paradise." -Robert Hughes
...shows how that range steadily shrinksas weapons become more powerful and less discriminating, and vaster horrors, like the aerial bombing of cities in World War II, become acceptable under the doctrine of response to "military necessity." Yet he traces the concept of military law to ancient human usage, to residual religious and moral restraint, to St. Augustine's first definition of just and unjust war, and to the irreducible pinch of practical sense, decency and self-interest that hold human societies together...