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Although the plot is not so cryptic as a summary might indicate, Ashton has collected a menage of rather dissonant symbols and attempted to bring them together in a harmonious structure that only partly succeeds. Ashton must be seen in reaction to 19th century "realism," in whose place he would substitute a reconciliation of the Romantic with the Epic. He attempts to involve the audience emotionally (Romantically) and then to shock them intellectually (Epically...
Producer-Director Stanley Kramer ranged expensively (budget: $4,000,000) over much of Spain in shooting his brave try at an epic. To woo realism, he faked virtually nothing; even his big gun. an awesome example of the perversity of inanimate objects, is actually what it seems. To give his film size, Kramer set it against Spain's brooding mountain grandeur and its trackless plains, its magnificent cathedrals and haunted, fairy-tale towns. He enlisted the services of Dictator Franco's army and thousands of Spanish extras...
Says one art teacher: "I didn't care anything for Socialist realism. I brought reproductions of real modern art into my classes, and I said 'this is art and I like it.' " One historian would take trusted students on hikes, and once safe from being overheard, would deliver lectures as he had in pre-Communist days. Though there were student spies ("I could always tell," says one facultyman. "They took notes at the wrong times"), teachers and students found subtle ways of communicating. Says a historian: "If I had to refer to the 'Soviet liberation...
...Road-Pickers. In the Du Pont and Jencks cases, many a legal observer could agree with the aims of the Supreme Court's legal idealism while regretting that it was not more firmly anchored in legal realism. For example, such critics, with no particular brief for Du Pont, nonetheless thought that the majority decision had taken a highly selective, hotly debatable set of facts and used them to extend a law dealing with stock "acquisitions" so that it applied to a "reasonable probability" existing 30 years later. And such observers, even while agreeing that Jencks had a case...
...Republican Charles Evans Whittaker, has not yet been around long enough to become identified with any group. (The arguments in both the Du Pont and Jencks cases had started before Whittaker joined the court.) But it is in Whittaker that the Supreme Court may find its spokesman for legal realism as against Warren's legal idealism. Asked about his attitudes of legal interpretation, Whittaker set out a signpost of his own: "I read the law only for an understanding of its meaning, and apply and enforce it in accordance with my understanding of its meaning." This doctrine of legal...