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Implacable as a Tank. "I've always believed in issues rather than partisanship," he says. But the issues he espoused-a blend of mild liberalisms-have long since been appropriated by candidates who sometimes win. "It's been a lifetime commitment to do everything I could to secure peace," he says, emphasizing his role as a U.S. delegate to the 1945 San Francisco conference that forged the United Nations, and as Ike's Mutual Security Administrator and chief disarmament adviser. Even as he recalls such distinguished assignments, he unconsciously reminds his audiences that his day is past...
...Warner Bros, shootem-ups of the '30s and the existential drama of a man (Charles Aznavour) who can no longer respond to life. Jules and Jim was a near-perfect evocation of Montparnassian fin de siecle life, informed with psychological observations of the '60s. A blend of saline tragedy and dulcet comedy, it reinforced the burgeoning reputation of Actress Jeanne Moreau...
Murphy warned that "you cannot build a society on feeling alone. Only a proper blend of reason, action and feeling will build a better world." At Brandeis, retiring President Abram Sachar urged students to develop a "special kind of quiet courage: not to be driven into impulsive or capricious action, and to learn to live with crisis, since that is the only way you will live through it." Students worldwide, he said, "have been at the very heart of the greatest and most promising revolution in human history. And when revolutions come, they inevitably tear into the valuable, the precious...
...short of eloquence; yet in some peculiar way his characters speak a poignant, subliminal dialogue that makes the audience hear what does not quite get said. A supple cast that obviously loves and understands the play gives it emotive depth. As Hogan, W. B. Brydon is a raffish, truculent blend of peasant guile and blather, while Mitchell Ryan's sodden, dandyish Jim Tyrone is a tarnished peacock straight from Old Broadway. Salome Jens, with hoydenish charm, discloses the vulnerable waif inside the intimidating woman. Director Theodore Mann has sensitively staged the play in fidelity to O'Neill...
Jacob Blaustein, LL.D. former U.N. delegate, co-founder of the American Oil Co. Rare blend of statesman, industrialist and humanitarian...