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...Cruel Dilemma. The Soviet Union is, of course, a dictatorship that denies all its citizens many basic human rights taken for granted in the West. But the Jews are treated worse than most. Despite its slogans about equality. Communism has always been ambivalent on the Semitic question. In the early days, many leading Bolsheviks were Jewish, including Leon Trotsky. Under Stalin...
This development has only intensified the cruel dilemma that has confronted the Soviet Jew for years. Soviet policy is against all religions, but the Jew is discouraged to a far greater degree than either the Christian or Moslem from trying to practice his faith. In all of the Soviet Union, there are only about 60 synagogues and a dozen or so ordained rabbis. At the same time, the Soviet Jew cannot shed his identity and become a fully assimilated Russian even if he wants to. No matter where he was born, he is always listed...
...purposeful genocide carried out by Nazi war criminals, should have been found guilty and hanged. Only if the principle applied to him in 1945 can be demonstrated to have been wrong is it possible to argue effectively that it would be wrong to apply it now. It is a dilemma that, however argued, cannot be resolved in a fashion that is very comforting to thoughtful Americans...
...That's been the dilemma and the appeal of the man all along. He hasn't revealed himself even to some of his closest friends and yet he has the support of everyone from the Corporation to the CRIMSON," he added...
Loving. Set in John Cheever country-the wealthy suburbia of Fairfield County, Connecticut-this American film presents the dilemma of a financially insecure commercial artist unable to come to terms with either his wife or his mistress. Irvin Kershner, who directed from a screenplay by Don Devlin, has a terrific fell for the sterility of his settings and the dogged humanity of his characters. Even when being funny, the movie is underlined by that dim light we associate with the pain of three o'clock in the morning. The picture also has a brilliant climax involving closed-circuit television...