Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past 14 years Military Historian John Keegan, 42, has been lecturing on battles to young British officer cadets at Sandhurst. Along the way, a thought struck him: "I have not been in a battle; not near one, nor heard one from afar, nor seen the aftermath." Sensibly, he did not try to make up for this gap in his experience by seeking out a battle and joining up. But he also found the massive literature on warfare oddly bloodless...
Weinstein: Why now? Partly because of the shift in the climate of American opinion in the aftermath of Watergate; a perhaps more critical set of attitudes towards institutions, towards government, a belief that there were wrongs to be righted, and a search for heros in what seems to many of us a villainous time...
...movie also contains Director Elia Kazan's most assured work in a decade. Scenes like Kathleen's first appearance-Stahr sees her on a set, in the aftermath of an earthquake, floating down a man-made river aboard the great plaster head of a mythological goddess-are brought off with the checked flamboyance characteristic of the best in Panic in the Streets and East of Eden. Kazan has certainly lost none of his assurance with actors. De Niro makes an appropriately remote Stahr, bright or shaded depending on the circumstances and angle of view. Mitchum, Milland, Tony Curtis...
...demanding, it is unlikely to change. The Presidential race will remain a process that continues, beyond the control of any of the participants, and yet reaching its periodical culmination in a choice of great importance. One such choice has just been made, and what is needed in its aftermath is a little sympathy--for Gerald Ford, who spent two years of his life in the White House on a fluke of history, nearly earned the right to remain there, and now will return to Grand Rapids, where he should have been all along; for Jimmy Carter, who spent two years...
...aftermath of the debate, Ford's aides were subdued as they came to realize he had not done well enough in the contest that he was supposed to have won because of his two years' experience as President...