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...sense, the familiar discussion of military preparedness was overshadowed by NATO's "general recognition," as Secretary-General Dirk Stikker summed it up, "of a change in the atmosphere of world affairs." British Foreign Secretary R. A. Butler echoed a common view that in the wake of the Kremlin's retreat in the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviets "have renounced the policy of high risks in dealing with the West." U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, while warning that the Communists could create new dangers with unpredictable and perilous speed, hinted that the array of problems facing Russia...
Under U.S. urging, Secretary-General Dirk Stikker (ailing and probably due for early retirement) is carrying out sweeping studies to reassess NATO force levels and basic strategy. The French have been working against the "Stikker studies." Clinging to their own massive retaliation theory, which holds that any aggression in Europe must turn into a nuclear war, De Gaulle's men sneer at Washington's concept of "balanced" conventional-and-nuclear forces to provide a "flexible response" to Red moves...
...same bill is Victim, a British import revolving around homosexuality. Its point (a good one) is that England's sex laws, which make homosexuality a criminal offense, are ineffective, barbaric, cruel, and an inducement to blackmail. Dirk Bogarde, as a happily married barrister with a homosexual past, turns in a fine performance. Victim drags in spots, but its point of view is admirable and is expressed without pious moralizing
...redeem the professor's reputation, a colleague (Dirk Bogarde) engages to repeat his experience. While the camera dispassionately supervises, Bogarde is led into a room impermeable to light and sound. There he is stuffed into a rubber diving suit and submerged in a tank of water warmed to body heat. His external sensations disappear, and as the hours go by he passes through six successive stages of sensory deprivation: irritation, melancholia, hallucination, panic, disorientation and stupor. When his assistants finally haul him out of the tank, Bogarde is more like a jellyfish than a human being, a mindless blob...
...rubbish there is to hang onto in life-and I've thrown the good bits away"; "I don't want another martini, I've had enough to float Fire Island"; "Sleep, rest, relaxation-where can I buy those?" Her acting, against a backdrop of Old Flame Dirk Bogarde's flexing jaw muscles and travelogue shots of Olde England, may be the best of her career. The most revealing scenes are onstage at the Palladium. On opening night she stands in the wings, fingers snapping, as her rapport with the orchestra becomes almost physical; then with...