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...first American killed fighting Communism in Greece in 1949 to the first American to die in South Viet Nam in 1961, was a fitting reminder of the role in which the U.S., like it or not, has been cast since the end of World War II.*It was particularly apt at a time when the nation was involved in its biggest and most bitterly disputed venture since Korea. In South Viet Nam, that involvement led last week to outbursts of anti-Americanism as students put the U.S. consulate in Hue to the torch and hoisted the Vietnamese flag. Nine Buddhist...
...Federal Government must take the initiative if anything is ever to be done. Though cries are still heard about the freedom-encroaching growth of government-most frequently from the extreme right wing-most Americans have come to accept the fact that big problems require big government. What they are apt to resent is the Federal Government's playing too pervasive and domineering a role in decisions that are better made at the state or local level. On the other hand, Washington is recognizing that many of its programs need local focus and effort to make them work efficiently...
...gives short shrift to every postwar Allied leader save Harry Truman. His characterization of Truman, whom he credits with saving Western Europe from Communism through his strong stand in 1947-48 in Greece and Turkey, might well be applied to der Alte himself: "Truman was a personality apt to stick tenaciously to a decision once taken, and unlikely to be deflected from it by criticism." A later volume of Adenauer's memoirs will deal with Dwight Eisenhower...
...gave a great deal of attention, sometimes drops to the level of mere flashiness. Gavras will not always resist ostentatious camera angles and tricks like shooting upside down or through the bottom of a beer stein. But often the style is a tour de force of the evocative and apt. When Graziani is interrogating suspects, the camera continually tracks and pans in short arcs, testing different angles as if conducting an investigation of its own. When the entire force starts work on the sleeping-car case, the camera tracks alongside the policemen and stops, glides around them and stops, moves...
Iris Murdoch (A Severed Head) has put readers on warning that novels by Oxford philosophy dons are apt to baffle as well as entertain. The same warning applies to Accident, by Nicholas Mosley (who is, coincidentally, the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, former chief of the British Union of Fascists), which is about an Oxford philosophy don, and which raises the art of the intellectual tease to the level of mild torture. There is no doubt that in Accident a fictional design of subtlety and distinction has been attempted. But it is a literary jigsaw puzzle with perhaps some extra...