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...more than a century. In A World Restored, Kissinger argued that "stability based on an equilibrium of forces" was ultimately responsible for the relative calm of Europe in the decades preceding World War I. His fascination, however, lay clearly not with physical force as such, but rather with the clever ploys and double entendres of great power diplomacy...
...section devoted to Spengler, he wrote that "Instinct is no guide to political conduct. Effective leadership is always forced-whatever its motives-to represent itself as the carrier of ideas, embodying purposes. All truly great achievements in history resulted from the actualization of principles, not from the clever evaluation of political conditions...
Bunk. Statements like these are numerous, and I'm sure Rohmer would deny them. The ex- Cahiers critic seems to me a clever entertainer whose forte is literary quotation, varying in thought quality and amusement value...
...musicals. Jonathan Tunick has done a spectacular job of orchestration throughout, but "The Girlds Upstairs" tops everything. This song and "Too Many Mornings," a love duct sung by John McMartin and Dorothy Collins, are the best things on the record. Sondheim's lyrics are really magnificent, tender and clever at the same time, and the songs always belong to the characters who sing them. Time called him "Broadway's supreme lyricist" and it is beginning to seem like an obvious statement. But Sondheim is also Broadway's master composer, which fewer critics seem to realize, perhaps because he refuses...
...RHYMING. Clever rhyming is easy. To rhyme orange is no trick at all. Anybody...