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CORRESPONDENCE Puerile Equitableness I just finished reading a film review in your December issue and feel as if I stumbled over a stone on a brightly lit road. How the stone got there is a matter...
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...Tyrmand is more opposed to the PLO than I am, but I can't see how it's necessary to review an actress' political life in order to judge her performance on the screen...
...Hellman exudes, in life and work, a special odor of liberal rottenness at its worst and stalest...
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...While apparently content to sniff about, he seems to find me at fault for relying on my senses of hearing and seeing when considering an audio-visual medium...
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...Aside from the moral issue he makes out of whether to-shop-or-not-to-shop at Lord & Taylor, Mr...
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...Now, to my mind, the first duty of a critic, even a reviewer, is to put his message, even just an info, into a proper intellectual and moral perspective...
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...Everitt with the help of the adjectives important, poignant, accomplished and expressions like moving story and mature compassion...
...His comments about Vanessa Redgrave are equally off-target...
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...But life is cruel, does not let us dismiss it so easily, and bemuddles pure harmonies with impertinent questions...
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...Everitt is obviously a believer in the school of immanent criticism, that is in the full autonomy of a work of art, which should remain detached from ugly realities...
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...Tyrmand's much flaunted sense of smell does not fill that vacuum in any way...
...To my mind, allowing the views of those one most dislikes to determine one's own opinion is a slap in the face to responsible thinking...
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...Tyrmand's most telling remark against Lillian Hellman, and presumably Julia, is that Ms...
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...Tyrmand's brand of knee-jerk reaction which, I concede, is not olfactorily invalid, but is certainly mentally crippled...
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...Tyrmand's point of view is just as absurd to me as the stance of liberals who refuse to see movies that star John Wayne...
...Even a reporter deeply awed by the hard-sell humanitarianism and "engaging performances" of Julia must ask the question: What does this slick stylishness and artsy glitter serve...
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...Tyrmand perceives to be the "proper intellectual and moral perspective...
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...If I were to deny that I admired Martin Eden because of this I would be dishonest, if not downright inane...
...If this sounds too demanding, a simple comparison of attitudes known from other works, or public image, would do...
...In his letter, other than quoting my adjectives out of context, he never specifically addresses himself to the way I have assessed the particulars of Julia, so I have to assume that he has not seen the film...
...I sincerely doubt that Mr...
...I don't say this as an unfair literal summation of his argument, but as a way of pointing out what I consider to be an inappropriate and muddled criterion for judgment...
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...I can't say that an irate letter of this kind at all surprises me, but I think it should have been sufficiently clear in my review that Julia is concerned with matters other than politics—matters just as important as what Mr...
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...Without a foul smell detector, he slips from criticism down to an "I-sure-like-it" opinion...
...Thus the movie, entitled Julia, is made from a story by and about Ms...
...How the stone got there is a matter of perplexity...
...Brooks, Lord & Taylor's chairman, thanked Ms...
...Tyrmand's nostrils flare wildly in indignation...
...I think there is a valid distinction here between independent thought and Mr...
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Vol. 11 • February 1978 • No. 4
