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...moderate third force between the two power blocs, and even to the Gaullists' old allies, the Independent Republicans of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. "These are candidates of diversion, division and treason," warned Premier Georges Pompidou in his final appeals. "They are between two chairs, arid I hope they fall on their derriere...
...tales seem to be a process of working through to the point, of justifying the rounded resolutions that he pats into place at the end. In the long, superb title story, a woman's grief at her husband's death seems at first as stiff and arid as their marriage was. Then she finds that her real grief consists of a series of discoveries about herself, notably the fact that she harbors a lesbian passion. Finally she draws back from contemplation of "last things"-death, ultimate commitments-and finds a practical way to go on living with neither...
Tourist Attraction. Yet the Israelis seem more intent on holding onto the Gaza Strip than any other part of their conquered territory, except Jerusalem. They are slowly integrating this arid area into Israel, and impressing on the Arabs the permanence of their presence. The reason: Worthless in every other respect, the Gaza Strip is important to Israel's security, since it probes like a finger into Israeli territory. Egyptian troops massed there before the outbreak of the war, and the Strip had long been a base for Arab terrorist raids...
...dramatist, Hochhuth is arid and windy, substituting rhetoric for dialogue and debate for conflict. The drama is brought in from offstage like an imported delicacy-dispatches about the sinking of the Scharnhorst, or the discovery of the mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, or telegrams from F.D.R. and Stalin...
...stark tragedy was best brought out by Thomas Jefferson's statement that the tree of liberty must often be watered by the blood of tyrants and patriots. Let us hope that this latest moisture was well absorbed in this arid spring...