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...psychological situations. If there is one monument [Feb. 22] to one soldier on the face of this, earth, there must be one for the G.I.s of Viet Nam, who gave as much as any who fought in earlier conflicts and, so far, have been rewarded only with medals of contempt and disinterest...
...young fell into a dreamy, vacuous inertia, a canned wisdom of the East persuading them - destructively - that mere being would suffice, was even superior to action. "Let It Be," crooned Paul McCartney. Scientific excellence seemed apocalyptically suspect - the route to pollution and nuclear destruction. Striving became suspect. A leveling contempt for "elitism" helped to divert much of a generation from the ambition to be excellent...
...male stars act impeccably. Grusin's twitching, hunched, sour-eyed Zoditch recalls a Scrooge who has out-eaten his suit size and suffers itching and cramping as a result. Benedict constructs a mournful, perpetually apologetic Chulkaturin who simultaneously invites scorn and nurturing, contempt and sympathy. In a lesser part, Jeremy Geidt plays a convincingly gruff, patriarchal Ozhogin, father to the object of Chulkaturin's clumsy and unrequited youthful affections...
...principal threat, but he discouraged any undue sense of danger that might tempt accommodation. The Soviets' courage, he said, did not match their ambitions, as demonstrated during the Cuban missile crisis and America's alert during the previous month's Mideast war. He illustrated his contempt for Soviet leaders by the story of his enlustrated his contempt for Soviet leaders by the story of his encounter in 1969 with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who had come uninvited to Peking airport to discuss the easing of Sino-Soviet tensions...
...Watt's olive branch got him nowhere last week with the environmentalists, he appeared to have lost even more ground with his congressional critics. The House Energy and Commerce Committee, voting along partisan lines, recommended that the full House cite him for contempt of Congress for refusing to provide eleven Government documents concerning possible Canadian discrimination against U.S. investors that Watt claims are protected by Executive privilege. If the full House approves the contempt citation, and Watt is found guilty in a criminal trial, he could face a year in prison and a $1,000 fine. Meanwhile, the General...