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Carter's expression of urgency came none too soon for congressional leaders. G.O.P. Presidential Hopeful How ard Baker told Carter that the whole matter "should have been dealt with by now." Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Frank Church declared that "the Senate will require a certification by the President that Soviet combat forces are no longer deployed in Cuba, if the way is to be cleared for consideration of SALT." New York Senator Jacob Javits, senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, was calmer. Said he: "I don't believe this issue ought to be blown up into some...
Thirsty to hear French but a bit rusty, audiences tend to turn up at the theater sensibly bearing the original text or Rich ard Wilbur's fine translation. To help with the language barrier, the Comédie offers headsets and simultaneous translations into serviceable though clubfooted English prose. The effect is a bit like watching a movie under water. Anyone who possibly can should read the play in French beforehand, then sit back and let the long lines roll down the centuries and over...
Quintet's grave tone notwithstanding, the dialogue is often so uplifting and epigram matic that it could almost be set to a Rich ard Rodgers score...
...nine months ago, Holocaust has been shown in eleven countries, including Israel, Britain and Japan. But the program posed a ticklish dilemma for television executives of publicly financed television stations in West Germany, where many people would rather bury the Nazi past Both ARD and ZDF, the two national networks, declined to purchase the show They cited reports from West German correspondents in the U.S. that Holocaust which focuses on the suffering of a Jewish family and the rise of a young SS officer, verged "dangerously close to soap opera." Eventually WDR, largest of West Germany's regional channels...
From the beginning, broadcasters feared that the series would be viewed as either too banal to be truly educational, or too anti-German to be effective. To counterbalance some of Holocaust's technical errors, ARD screened before the first installment a 90-minute documentary called Endlösung (final solution), using actual films of Hitler's rise and the grim reality of the death camps Stations broadcasting Holocaust set up telephone lines over which viewers could call in to panels of experts and survivors of Nazi persecution...