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...belongs to Physicist Andrei Sakharov, 48, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, whose own views are believed to mirror those of many Russian intellectuals. In 1968 Sakharov wrote a 10,000-word essay, studied with great interest in the West, that called for a rapprochement of the capitalist and Communist systems and for greater personal freedoms in the Soviet Union...
...read with a great deal of interest the brief item, "Smokey the Capitalist" [Feb. 16]. Of special interest was the call for a cartoon character like Smokey to deal with problems of the environment...
...anti-Communists who could be seeking to consolidate their own power by carrying the policy of coolness toward Hanoi and the Viet Cong farther than Sihanouk would wish. When informed of the riots, the Prince accused "certain personalities" of trying to throw Cambodia "into the arms of an imperialist capitalist power." He warned that he could be toppled by a right-wing coup...
Rooted in World War II or Cold War experience (depending on whether you believe socialist or capitalist commentators) the narrative is openly allegorical. Briefly stated, I suppose it's something like this: the foundation for collaboration with evil is to be found in the apparently meaningless capitulations we make in everyday life. But Report is better than allegory; unlike all those Profound Question-obsessed Bergman films you can't just plug in a simple meaning for each of the characters and explain the film away. The reason for this lies in the sinister, stark quality of Nemec's style...
...Green's epic theatre script holds up far better than one would expect in the second act's cruelty-of-war sequences and in the final act, where the hero returns home to be placed in an asylum (disease: "peace monomania") and discovers that his girl has married the capitalist-pig-next-door. It is hard to imagine any anti-war theatre being effective anymore, but about ten minutes' worth of Johnny Johnson is chilling in this respect...