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...complaint has been levelled against Fellini that in La Dolce via he documents while failing to condemn Purposelessness; but this is untrue. The tension in Dolce Vita is accounted for by an unmistakable sense of time and life being wasted. Fellini, in short, recognizes the line between fascination and sympathy. Godard ignores it, and has designed Breathless simply to titillate...
Their best showing was on the question of whether or not to condemn the House Committee on Un-American Activities, a traditional scapegoat of the NSA. A conservative resolution that advocated reform rather than abolition of the committee failed by only 236 to 216, although the eventually successful resolution to abolish the committee passed with a more clear-cut margin...
Having prudently brought along an overnight bag, Russell obviously hoped to go to jail ("If you condemn us," said he, "you'll be helping our cause"), and Magistrate Bertram Reece obliged. Amid gallery cries of "Fascist!" and "Shame!", he imposed a two-month sentence, later reduced to one week for health reasons. Then the frail old man was whisked un ceremoniously away (unknown hands had written three hasty words in the dust on his Black Maria: "Ban the bomb") to Brixton jail. It was a homecoming: Russell had spent six months of World War I there for his pacifist...
...relation to the provocation in slaughtering more than 800 Tunisians at Bizerte? De Gaulle is reported to have remarked: "Bourguiba decided to act like a clown. He was rapped over the knuckles for it. So much the worse for him." The failure of the U.N. Security Council to condemn France, after De Gaulle's scornful disregard of it, only convinces De Gaulle that the U.S., for all its misgivings, can only support the French position. He seems equally sure that the U.S. will head off any General Assembly debate on the base at Bizerte lest it give an opportunity...
Hoxha revealed that Moscow had sent a letter to the Albanians asking support for the anti-China campaign. "But even the parties who were asked to condemn the Chinese had no knowledge of the Soviet allegations until a few hours before the debate . . . Did Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders lack confidence in their own cause when they had recourse to such procedure...