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...Catholics' chill and poignant ending, the abbot capitulates to Rome, then has to repair the shattered faith of his charges by leading them in prayer, a communal task he has long avoided. He knows, as he begins to pray, that the action will plunge his bleak but compassionate soul into an endless spiritual void. As the camera closes in on Howard's tortured, searching eyes, it captures all the anguish of the dark night of the Soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

Public opinion toward the President has turned as chill as the autumn air in New England. On the many college campuses that crisscross the region, the issue of impeachment is reviving some of the protest fervor of the anti-Viet Nam War days. What has been the topic of dining-hall conversation for some time has now become the subject of polls, petitions and street placards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: The Jury of the People Weighs Nixon | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

...outside the ruling clique knows exactly what put the freeze on the Caetano spring, but the chill no doubt set in when liberals began demanding more civil rights and questioning the country's 500-year-old commitment to the African colonies. Portugal clings desperately to overseas territories whose combined area is 23 times its own size. It spends from 35% to 40% of its budget fighting insurgents in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea; through a four-year draft, it sends its most skilled young manpower to the African wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Unpleasant Dreams | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

Though there is much to admire in Scorsese's film, one's feelings about it are finally ambivalent. Scorsese feels the chill of his mean streets in his bones, and he makes us feel it too. There is neither warmth nor comfort in the places his people seek to escape that cold. The very light of the film suggests a terrarium existence. The detailing is not just a matter of touches; it is an impasto that, instead of being a stylistic device, be comes the root substance of the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Closed Circle | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...with his glass to spy who was or was not there . . . Then returned the fear of catching cold, and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat, felt himself weighed down, and turning round found it was the Duke of Newcastle standing upon his train to avoid the chill of the marble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Walpole Sampler | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

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