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...vocation, confirming the fact that Europe was indeed in motion. Last month Rumanian Minister of Metallurgy Ion Marinescu visited Paris; Russia's Leonid Brezhnev showed briefly in Bratislava; Czech Foreign Trade Minister Frantiśek Hamouz skipped frantically from Oslo to Budapest to Copenhagen, signing trade agreements. Meanwhile, Danish agricultural experts toured the backwoods of Czechoslovakia; Norwegian Mayor Brynjulf Bull concluded a scientific agreement in Budapest; and a delegation of Polish parliamentarians arrived in Brussels to have a look at the Common Market. Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki turned up in Stockholm; Hungarian Boss...
Gertrud. The young art of film has produced few enough old masters, but any cinematic pantheon must make a place for Carl Dreyer, the Danish director whose reputation rests on a handful of somber, infrequent movie classics, among them The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and Day of Wrath (1943). Gertrud, made in 1964, is more museum piece than masterpiece, for this muted and stately study of a woman's quest for perfect love already seems to have been gathering dust for decades. It challenges the ingenuity of coterie critics to prove that any Dreyer movie will gleam...
After long debate, the conference vetoed a Danish proposal to use NATO as a springboard for an East-West conference on basic issues that divide Europe. Not that the ministers were opposed to a settlement: they encouraged all "initiatives" of any NATO nation to improve East-West relationships. At the same time, however, even Couve de Murville agreed with Secretary of State Rusk that it is still too early for outright accommodation between the two opposing blocs. There is an obvious interest in moving toward peace with Russia, said Rusk, but "the main ingredient is our own solidarity...
...about all of the 200 invited guests, divided-in deference to Danish jollity and Mrs. Krag's profession-between Washington's with-it set and showbiz notables. Even Press Secretary Bill Moyers, an ordained Baptist teacher, fell into the heady rhythm, joining with Lady Bird's Press Secretary Liz Carpenter in some daring aberrations that bystanders called the "L.BJ." and the "Valenti." In the L.B.J., more caricature than choreography, they shuffled around the floor to the rhythm of the hitchhike, punching each other on the shoulder, "reasoning together," dialing imaginary telephones, grasping hands in the presidential flesh...
Today's thin-skinned press takes offense at the slightest criticism from President Johnson or anybody else. But what if it had to contend with a contemporary Soren Kierkegaard? Incensed by vicious newspaper attacks on his personal beliefs and eccentricities, the great 19th century Danish philosopher flayed the press both aloud and in his journals, the final volume of which is now available in English (The Last Years: Journals 1853-55; Harper & Row; $6.95). Sample scorchers...