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...Before such an extraordinary document," wrote the Communist Lettres Françaises grudgingly, "one can't help admiring the candor with which Americans portray their army. The fact that a French producer was authorized to make such a film indicates great liberalism." The film is a 24-minute short titled The Marines, and its producer is François Reichenbach, 38, who made a big New Wave splash last spring with his first full-length movie, the much criticized L'Amérique Insolite (generally translated "unusual"). For his latest effort, a stark study of the Parris Island...
Pell, who paid a short visit to the University this week, would just as well watch politics from the sidelines now. With typical candor and objectivity, he said, "The political philosophy of my generation is outmoded. We can't deal with the issues of today." Herbert Pell is heroically unequivocal--especially for a politician--and is delightfully quick-witted in his vignettes of "the old days" or "when I was a boy" or "when FDR was in"--frequent Pell terms. A life-long Democrat, the ambassador decries straight party voting as "unintelligent...
...Candor for Reporters. The new mood had its origin last May when a column by New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston challenged the honesty of the Nixon "background conferences," which let Nixon say things anonymously that he would be most reluctant to say in public, e.g., criticism of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Benson. Angry, Nixon suspended the background sessions, and the Nixon camp took on the wary formality that still prevails...
Pain & Sorrow. His portraits were almost ruthless in their candor. He did not even try to conceal the pain that his neglect had caused his wife, or paint out the sadness imprinted on his children's faces (see color). In time the painting joined the collection of Basilius Ame-bach, whose wise and scholarly father, Bonifacius (see color), began rounding up Holbein canvases during the first convulsive years of the Reformation. After Basilius' death, the city and the university bought the Amerbach collection, which they own to this day. It is Basel's permanent tribute...
...respond politely and correctly in slightly accented French to Herter's welcoming speech without recourse to notes or text, who faced a roomful of U.S. correspondents and fielded their sharpest questions with calm confidence, urbanely parried questions he did not choose to answer. Sometimes, he spoke with disarming candor. "I was sitting around my office with the country exploding around me," he explained. "It took me just five seconds to decide that the only place to go was the United Nations...