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...bulk of the evening's lecture was on the "sonorous image." Copland spoke of it as a "kind of aural mirage, not easily immobilized and analyzed." He gave as an example, the impact of such an image upon himself. Once, in 1925, he had gone to a rehearsal to hear the first orchestration of his music. Arriving late, he said the sound of his music excited him so, "that I was literally about to fall over...
Here you actually see hooks being baited, fish being pulled in, and fish being cleaned. These revealing scenes are repeated again and again for maximum impact. Of course these are those who feel that one fish looks pretty much like another--fortunately, these cynics don't direct photography for Universal...
...Superstition No. 2-the popular neglect of Western culture's Christian basis -he answers: "Public education . . . in trying to be nonsectarian, quickly became nonChristian, and so in total impact often anti-religious . . . The thinking of the Christian philosophers, being commonly uncredited to them, is diffused into general overtones, and so is neither rightly appreciated nor soundly criticized . . . It is as if the chemist were forbidden to include in his course outline any reference to the salts, or the botanist were required to be completely silent about conifers...
Topics up for discussion include the status of the new Japan, the effect of the treaty on U.S.-Soviet relations, the treaty's impact on Communist-controlled countries in the Far East, and the possible rearmament of Japan as a link in the Pacific defense perimeter...
...shoestring budget, United Artists has produced a powerful picture. "The Well" owes its unusual impact to realistic handling of a brutal social phenomenon--the race riot. For those who haven't seen a race not build up, for those who haven't seen a bunch of plain ordinary guys turn into a pack of sadists, this picture is a must...