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Image presents a candid mosaic of Jewish life in Poland. What emerges from the film's patchwork is a coherent portrait of a flourishing culture. Aspiring writers flock to Warsaw to study under Y.L. Peretz, the dean of Yiddish literature. In the town of Vilna, the Jewish community establishes schools for the mentally retarded and for orphans. In the shtetls, the townfold engage in lively commerce and conform to the letter of well-rooted traditions. The Jews are politically animated. The heirs of the Enlightenment try to balance universal values with continuing Jewish particularism (the "problem" of minority separatism...
Moscow indicated last week that all is not going so well for its forces in Afghanistan. In an unusually candid article, the Soviet party daily, Pravda, reported that episodes of major sabotage, roadblocks and ambushes of supply convoys had been carried out by rebel forces against Soviet and Afghan troops. Most worrisome to the Soviets was a new kind of nonmetallic mine that is not detectable by ordinary means. The rebels have been successfully planting the mines along major highways to blow up Soviet tanks and trucks. "Such a mine said Pravda, "can be passed over by 40 trucks...
DIED. James Hagerty, 71, able, candid press secretary and influential adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower between 1953 and 1961, who initiated such now routine news practices as regularly scheduled face-to-face meetings between the press and the President and the admission of newsreel and television cameras to presidential press conferences; of a heart attack; in Bronxville, N.Y. A former political reporter and press secretary to New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Hagerty joined ABC after leaving the White House, serving as a vice president until a stroke in 1975 forced him to retire...
...biographer, she is a good reporter. The child of a business consultant in Athens, she went to Cambridge University in England. In writing Callas, her great break was the cooperation of the singer's godfather Leonidas Lantzounis. After he read a draft, he gave her the candid, affectionate letters that Callas had written him over many years. They are used as background, but one wishes that the author had quoted more...
...director Jon Else has taken it upon himself to shed some light on both the man and his creation. The Day After Trinity succeeds in penetrating much of the mystery that has so long surrounded the Los Alamos project and the slightly built scientist who coordinated it. Relying on candid interviews with Oppenheimer's Los Alamos colleagues, as well as rare footage of the test site itself, code-named Trinity. Else captures the spirit of the project and the nearly 6000 scientists who labored for four years on it. Oppenheimer, whom one former colleague calls the "conductor" of a huge...