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...JUST A FEW days ago Otto Preminger leaned back in time to find a previous rationale. He was answering questions for a small group of film critics, fans, maybe up-and-coming Premingers. A black student had just informed the Viennese-born director that the stereotype black roles in Preminger's Hurry Sundown (1966) were racist. "Nobody, NOBODY just sits there and sings spirituals when their house is being attacked by armed men," the young black man had affirmed. Preminger leaned into the microphone to reply...
...exactly pleased, the black man tried to respond but Otto Preminger, whose head looks something like a marble bowling ball which someone once tried to dribble, had called upon another raised hand...
...what way?" Otto said, slightly chuckling...
...Politically, yes..." and Otto unrolled opinions formed long ago. They began "Everywhere around the world young people become active at about seventeen or eighteen. Students always want their say...": two questions and two prepared statements later he ended with "you should work on the improvement of the system rather than overthrow...
...most memorable accomplishment of the First Vatican Council. Yet, as it turned out, it had less effect at the time than was expected. There were few immediate consequences: Great Britain's Prime Minister William Gladstone grumbled that the Pope was trying to revive "universal monarchy"; Germany's Otto von Bismarck used the dogma as a pretext for his anti-Catholic Kulturkampf (struggle for civilization); a group of Catholics in Central Europe formed the schismatic Old Catholic Church partly in rebellion against the doctrine...