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Already, in place of Ian Fleming, we have John le Carre, and outgrowths thereof. The drab, coarse, hand-to-mouth existence led by unshaven forty-pounds-a-month British counter-intelligence persons appears to have awakened yet another romantic streak in the masses. The first of the new breed was Martin Ritt's deliberately ugly adaptation of Spy Who Came in from the Cold; there followed The Ipcress File (which might be termed a transitional product), and now The Deadly A flair, The Quiller Memorandum, and Funeral in Berlin...
...authority over its staff or the school of government. Both Harvard officials and Kennedy friends insist that the institute's nonpartisan goal is to fill a significant gap in the academic world. In essence, it has been designed as a temporary center of intellectual refreshment for the modern breed of academic activist whose real love is to make and execute federal policy-yet who also cannot live too long without some contact with the world of ideas...
...situation has also produced a new breed of critics whose function is not to enunciate or defend standards but to be explicators and publicists for the new. Rothenstein, once a champion of innovation himself, now complains: "Scarcely anything, when it is quite new, however manifestly idiotic, is forthrightly condemned." Small wonder. Past critics were thoroughly cowed and browbeaten, not unjustly, for their classic misjudgments, beginning with the scorn neaped on Manet's Olympia and culminating in the ridicule showered on the impressionists, the Fauves and the cubists. Critics now live in terror of seeming square. The trouble...
Most politicians, even those of the new Ivy League breed like the Kinsellas, just don't take politically active intellectuals seriously and most of the intellectuals know this. But as one Kinsella said, "they are a little like party hacks; they may not much like what's happening to them, but where else are they going...
...Paul Scofield, who as Thomas More plays a saint without seeming self-righteous, a giant of his age without seeming supercolossal. American audiences, who seldom get to see Scofield, will probably agree-and conclude as well that Scofield ranks with the best of England's superior breed of actors...