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...marred by a bright red scar. Battling valiantly against the right, he turned his back on the left-a characteristic failing. "I agree with the aims of the Communist Party," he kept repeating, "but I differ with Communists in the methods of achieving them . . . through murder, loot and arson." This soft indictment, the iteration that "in Communism there are certain good things," was no way to lick them. Now the Communists are emerging from the election as India's No. 2 party. There were signs last week that Nehru himself had begun to see his mistake...
...Comrade Mao, proved again that on home territory he knows very well what the Communists are up to. Visiting Hyderabad's Communist-dominated Warangal district, he spoke under great flower-draped portraits of himself and Gandhi, telling cheering crowds that the Communists "are a party of murder, arson and loot, not of progress." Nehru plainly considered Hyderabad a crucial test in schooling his people in democracy...
Vadis is a triumph of money over matter, a monument to Hollywood's faith in the formula that nothing succeeds like excess. Petronius speaks for Quo Vadis when, discussing the emperor's monstrous arson, he tells Nero: "History need not say that the burning of Rome was good, but it must say that it was colossal...
Pagliacci, a thin, sardonic man, was tickled by the uproar but explained that he meant no harm; his ecclesiastical arson was based on purely artistic principles. "It all came from my desire to paint smoke in transparency against architecture. The idea of flames came later. Where there is smoke there must be fire Now the police are after me to find out if I have matches in my pocket. But I personally couldn't really set fire to St. Peter...
Dickens did not create all of his characters with the depth he gave Oliver, and from this may have arson the protests about Fagin is a caricature, admittedly; but it is a caricature of a type of person, not (as those who would ban the movie have assumed) a race. Also Guinness plays Fagin in the only way the old crook can be played--with exaggeration, as an amusing old man of guile and evil. Guinness never leaves this interpretation. His acting is not a triumph of subtle shading, but it is wonderfully lucid...