Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Leiser made the film to answer "the questions of German young people" from whom, in his opinion, much has been veiled by the "unsatisfactory, evasive, shamefaced answers of parents and teachers." In eight weeks, nearly half a million people have seen Mein Kampf in West Germany. (It is also set for distribution in East Germany.) Audiences, in the main, consist of people under 40, and the popularity of the film tends to contradict the notion that West Germans are unwilling to concern themselves with the facts of the Hitler...
...angry young man of the left in his day, British Poet and Critic Stephen Spender is now a respected and respectable member of the tight little club that is London's literary set. This week in the New York Times Book Review, while pondering the effects of togetherness on himself and his friends, Spender offered a fascinating guidebook for nonmembers...
...Indiscreet Tradition. Because of their intimacy, London's writers are a gossipy set with little sense of a public beyond their own circle. "An American editor told me recently how shocked he was to hear English reviewers speak with frivolous disrespect of a novel by a well-known colleague which, in their reviews, they had discussed at length and seriously." The gossip. Spender hazards, grows out of "a long tradition of discreet indiscretion, which is perhaps the virtue, or polite corruption, passed on by an upper class long used to revealing, and covering over, the misdemeanors of royal persons...
Having at long last decided to regard Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo as an unworthy ally, the U.S. last week set about doing everything it could to bring him down. The U.S. hopes to convince Latin American neighbors that it disapproves as much of dictatorships of the right as dictators of the left-a first step in winning support against Castro...
...politician are bound together. Director Nilsson has tried, with considerable success, to express in 76 minutes much more than can be stated explicitly in that time. His film bears a heavy load of symbolism, of scenes such as the one in which swinish revelers set fire to one lavish apartment and then reel off drunkenly to another. Visions of a society's dying past and corrupt present unfold themselves long after the film is over. It is not society, however, but Actress Daniel's journey from innocence to disillusion that is the core of the story...