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Hurry sundown by Otto Preminger. Bernard Shaw postulated that great playwrights by definition write great plays, and this is certainly the easiest way to defend Preminger's' Hurry Sundown, a difficult and dramatically unrewarding film. Like most of the great European directors who work in Hollywood, Preminger, takes little of...
The literature of the limerick is of course filled with sagas of girls who went too far:
Without benefit of compass, Viking sailors of the 9th century managed to ply their watery routes of conquest and commerce, navigating by stars at night and by sun during the day. No matter what the weather, according to ancient Scandinavian sagas, the sun could al ways be located with the...
It is this period that is warmly evoked by Novelist Halldor Laxness, 64, who won the 1955 Nobel Prize for such works as Independent People, a story of immemorial peasant life, and Salka Valka, a sociological study of corruption, lust and politics in an Icelandic fishing village. In most of...
A survey course, Hum 9 will leapfrog the period roughly from 2000 B.C. to the present. It will deal with the literature of the Ancient Near East, the Bible, and the ancients, and the vernacular literature of the Middle Ages, which marks the first recording of some of man's...