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...tense representation of Luther's famous debate with Doctor Eck and in a fairly lengthy scene between the reformer and his Church superior, Martin Luther hits at the audience's intellect rather than emotion. Luther spells out his doctrine with force and drama, but his fervor is always under control, and his heated voice never tries to add potency to his words. Rather is Niall MacGinnis, as Luther, remarkable for his restraint. At the scene of Luther's trial before Emperor Charles V, when Luther is offered safety if he will recant his theses, MacGinnis is superb. His voice...
...under oath." This is a very clover comment--I never answered these questions, which I am willing to do at any time, only because they were never asked under oath or otherwise. I regard the very positing of these questions as not only ridiculous but more insulting to the intellect of the inquisitor than to myself...
Such a man, Meredith himself believed, can only be one whose emotions are under the complete control of the intellect. Meredith, more akin to Shaw than to Dickens and Trollope, became an intellectual comedian whose life was one long perpetration of jokes against his haughty self. His Ordeal of Richard Feverel sardonically recounted the misadventures of a proper Victorian young gentleman brought up in almost complete ignorance of sex. The hero of The Egoist was a young baronet of such absurd self-love that he delayed his marriage (and lost the girl) worrying that she might remarry if he died...
...seductive face. She is happy because of "the intensity of my identification with living," and because her lover, who works for the Native Affairs Department, is "at grips with the huge central problem of our country in our time, something that had oppressed me not only in my intellect since I had grown old enough to have a concept of man's freedom, but in my blood...
...over to the students who revere competence in many fields above unlimited excellence in only one. Since fraternities are clearing houses for social attitudes, it is significant that the mentally hulking football recruit is not overwhelmed with pledge bids come rushing time. But, on the other hand, the pure intellect gets even fewer...