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...reality, the notion of profit in the Soviet economy has existed for quite a long time. Actually it is thanks to this profit that since 1923 the Soviet Union has been able to set up all its funds and industry, whose level is 60 times higher than that of Czarist Russia. However, those in the West often make believe that profit was formerly denied in the U.S.S.R. And now they allege that the Soviet Union has all of a sudden started zealously deriving profit...
...images--faces, gestures, and objects. He isolates fragments of an event and strings them together like the parts of a sentence, which qualify each other and add up to a statement. Certain images become symbols: the surgeon's pince-nez stands for the surgeon and in turn for the Czarist authority he represents...
...hopes of all mankind." This view of the U.S. as God's country sometimes makes the rest of the world a little uncomfortable. But it is very different from militant nationalism, which substitutes the nation for God, or from messianic imperialism (for instance, the "Holy Russia" of the czarist era, perhaps not entirely dead in the atheistic Marxist present), which sees one nation as universal redeemer. The special American destiny, suggested President Johnson, is both a blessing and a burden. "We have no promise from God that our greatness will endure. We have been allowed by Him to seek...
After an auspicious start, however, Guns runs an erratic course in outlining the ancient rivalries that lead to the Archduke's assassination at Sarajevo, thence to the rape of Belgium, and the devastating battles of attrition launched at Verdun and the Marne. Vignettes at the Czarist court are fascinating, and one oddly heartwarming sequence (marred by a fake shot of a meter clocking up a fare) shows the famed 600 vintage Paris taxis rattling off to the front as troop transports...
...Blending song and satire, commedia dell' arte garb and Brechtian notions, Joan Littlewood and her "thinking clowns" effectively depict the foolishness and ironies of the 1914-18 war. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is a nostalgic folk-musical version of Sholom Aleichem's tales of life in czarist Russia and Aleichem's gentle dairyman, Tevye, brought to life by Zero Mostel's larger-than-life interpretation...