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...respectful college theatrical. As Nora Helmer, Claire Bloom seems to substitute aspiration for inspiration-a windup doll whose spring is not wound tightly enough under the tensions of dull domesticity in the early going, and who completely runs down in the final confrontation with her husband. As her antagonist, Anthony Hopkins acts more like a spoiled adolescent than an oppressor to reckon with. A quartet of worthy English actors-Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Edith Evans, Anna Massey and Denholm Elliot -wander aimlessly around in the supporting roles...
...first time in recorded history that a rat has swum toward a sinking ship." Thus did former Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough brutally characterize the conversion of his old Texas antagonist John Connally to the Republican Party last week. But even if the G.O.P. is in trouble because of Watergate, it seemed a shrewd time for Connally to come aboard. If he wants to be captain himself some day, it is helpful to demonstrate that stormy weather does not faze him. He wants Republicans to say in effect: "He came over when we needed him more than he needed...
...article regarding the movie adaptation of A Doll's House has, I am sure, confirmed not only in my mind but also in the minds of many other Americans the fact that we do not need Jane Fonda. Ms. Fonda is not an actress but an activist and antagonist, i.e., antiwar and pro-Women's Lib. I hope that the American people will not spend their money to see a movie in which an "actress" who has done more harm than good in trying to get our P.O. W.s home does her thing...
...shift in contemporary diplomacy. Here was one of the chief architects of the U.S. bombing and mining policy being given a welcome in the capital of what had so recently been a bitter enemy. Kissinger was making his first visit to Hanoi at the invitation of his Paris antagonist, Le Due Tho. In three days of intensive talks, he was to meet Le Duan, the Communist Party leader, and Premier Pham Van Dong. The North Vietnamese had sought this visit with some urgency, possibly as a means of worrying South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. Hanoi...
...forget that the far vaster tragedy was suffered--and is still being suffered--by the Vietnamese. Their tragedy was not, like Johnson's in the classical mold. Their own flaws and hubris (a word which threatens to repeat the rise of "chairman") did not cause their undoing. Like the antagonist in a twentieth-century novel by Kafka or Camus, their enemy is faceless, irrational and overpowering. The Vietnamese are the real-life counterparts of Joseph K. and Meursault; they attain nobility by resisting oppression...