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...made Pinter an edge-of-the-seat dramatist. Even when he was, as English Critic Alan Brien once said, "a Hitchcock with the last reel missing," he still provided the electric Hitchcock tension. Beginning with the one-acters, Landscape and Silence, Pinter became enamored of static ruminative monologues that belong more properly to the novel than to drama...
...either. Although the reforms of the Council exceeded their wildest hopes, many of the liberals want much more. Furthermore, whereas Catholic liberals at the beginning of the 1960's, felt very much at home in the Church, many of them are increasingly doubtful that the Church is where they belong...
...Skirmishing. In the Cabinet, Bar-Lev, a thoroughly apolitical general who does not belong to any party, will inescapably find himself in the middle of hot political skirmishing as the 1973 elections approach. By that time, Premier Golda Meir will be past 75. Since she recently told a meeting of Labor Party chiefs that politicians should retire at that age, she is not expected to stand for reelection. At present, the warmest rivalry for her post is between Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, who counts on Bar-Lev as a Cabinet counterweight to Dayan...
...their schematization of form. But he remained stubbornly unaffiliated; even within the Symbolist group he was somewhat an outsider to the letter of their theory since, among other points of difference, he thought Gauguin's pictures "pedantic." Vuillard never allowed method to diminish sensation. "I do not belong to any school," he declared at 23. "I simply want to do something that is personal to myself." Six years later he described how "I never, in any context, think of my actions in terms of quality. Remember what I'm like...
...cold fact is that both economic and political realities have been driving Britain inexorably toward Europe. Since France, West Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg signed the Treaty of Rome in 1957, the world has become a less comfortable place for a country that does not belong to one trading bloc or another. Britain's once prized "special relationship" with the U.S. has all but dissolved. The Commonwealth has proved no substitute for the industrialized Continent as a trading partner. Over the past ten years, the combined gross national product of the Six has increased...