Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This "musical play" plants Cervantes in the dungeons of the Inquisition and pivots on the device of having him defend himself and his book in a mock trial by acting out the role of the knight of the woeful countenance. The indictment is modishly mock-cynical a la 1965; not the worst of the evening's sentimentalities is: "I charge you with being an idealist, a bad poet and an honest man. How plead you?" With this cue, the good grey don (Richard Kiley) whirls into his act. He tilts at windmills, mistakes an inn for a castle where...
...White Russian charlatan, served as an acolyte in the Episcopal Church and bombarded Roosevelt with allegorically couched advice on foreign policy. And, despite his closeness to the land and his concern for those who live by it, even overcoming his early abhorrence of Communism, Wallace came to defend Stalin's brutal collectivization of Soviet agriculture as a great humanitarian venture...
...powers. In Germany confidence in the U.S. is the cornerstone of foreign policy. Without atomic weapons or an effective army of their own, the Germans worry about the Communists along their eastern border. They continually approach the White House or the State Department for assurance of American determination to defend them. But the fear of desertion remains, and the Germans are terribly anxious to please. They hope to inspire confidence by supporting President Johnson everywhere, and not surprisingly about 70 per cent of the population favors the U.S. position in Vietnam...
KING AND COUNTRY. Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) takes an excruciating look at a World War I deserter (Tom Courtenay) who is doomed to die, and at the anguished officer (Dirk Bogarde) who is doomed to defend...
...spot scenes for Is Paris Burning? The end is in sight, if Parisian nerves can stand up till then. This week, in perhaps the most chilling re-enactment of all, the Fiihrer himself confronts his Paris commandant, General Dietrich von Choltitz, and orders him-once he can no longer defend the City of Light -to leave it "nothing but a blackened field of ruins." The actor who plays Hitler, Billy Frick, is so exact a look-alike that he is afraid to leave the set except mustacheless and in mufti. The porcine, Prussian-looking fellow cast as General von Choltitz...