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...enough, Kissinger also proceeded to strike the "immediate withdrawal" alternative from the options half of the Vietnam memorandum, leaving his current Vietnamization plan as the most moderate of all the options listed. Thus, even before the paper had gone to the National Security Council, Kissinger had made the crux of the Administration's final choice inevitable: the United States was not going to leave Vietnam without exacting a price from the NLF and Hanoi. By thus manipulating the options system, Kissinger had unilaterally made a crucial policy choice...
...crux of the problem is that the J.D.L. is normally very careful not to stray too far outside the letter of the law-defamation or physical assault, for example-and that even when members do, the Soviets seldom permit their diplomats to bring charges and testify in court. The Russians claim that testifying is not their responsibility, that it is up to the U.S. to protect them. But without Soviet cooperation, little can be done. The situation is complicated by the highly emotional aura that surrounds the J.D.L. Most responsible Jewish leaders oppose the J.D.L., but they are also sympathetic...
...speaking fictionally and didactically at the same time-and indeed the whole film is balanced between narrative and polemic. But all that we can say is concretely happening is the action in the exact center of this dialectic between naturalism and didacticism, the action that is the dialectic's crux: that there is a woman in center frame delivering a speech...
Through Antonio das Mortes the dialectic keeps balancing and leaving its crux, in center frame, to be the truth of the image and of the film at this instant. Sometimes a symbolic figure occupies the center between the cangaceiro and his opponent; sometimes there is just the space between foreground and background masses. In each case Rocha's dialectical construction tells us the precise nature of their relationship. As elsewhere, dialectic shows itself to be the best way of understanding events, of laying them open to us. The central fact about this film, the root of its success, is that...
That was indeed the crux of Klee's art. His work sprang from a peculiarly aseptic meditative center, neither "emotional" nor "intellectual," but simply withdrawn. His reputation as a great teacher seems to rest more on his published theories in the Pedagogical Sketchbook than on the results he got from his pupils. Though he was one of the ornaments of the Bauhaus during his years in Germany, working there did not affect his style, nor did his idiosyncratic style affect the Bauhaus theorists. It was just another monastery...