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...anti-colonialist message of the original novel is present, if diminished, in Spielberg’s rendition. A more evident comparison, though, is Spielberg’s portrayals of scenes of panic, reminding Americans of the real-life public crisis on Sept...
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...University of Virginia notes that few students today seem inspired by Niebuhr's thought, and questions "what his lasting place in the history of American thought, of theology, of political philosophy, will be." But Fox's depiction of Niebuhr in his prime makes him stand tall in comparison with today's political pulpiteers. A reading of the biography, followed by a good dose of Niebuhrian realism, might benefit the religious right and left. --By Richard N. Ostling
...your report on Commander Billig, you compare a military surgeon's salary of $70,000 with the $240,000 gross income of a surgeon in private practice. The comparison is misleading. A private surgeon must pay for his office, the salaries of his personnel, his equipment, his insurance and his own retirement plan, all of which are provided by the military for its physicians. It may be difficult for the military to attract doctors, but not because of salary. Carie D. Buckley III, M.D. Staunton, Va. Shcharansky's Survival...
...essay the role of the brooding, mordantly comic, half-mad prince is to brave comparison with Garrick and Booth, Burton and Olivier. Kline may not yet rank among that pantheon, but he has vaulted over his contemporaries with this production. His performance ripens and changes night by night. It still seems unfinished in some scenes, too cautious in others, and is on the whole a bit quiet and constrained to energize a melodrama nearly four hours long. But he speaks the text with clarity and command, and he makes Hamlet believable as a whirlpool of contradictions: an inconstant avenger...