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...rigor of Malle's portrait of the youth, in fact, makes the movie a little distant. Malle was not after the kind of shattering catharsis that Vittorio de Sica, working with similar material, achieved in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. Lucien is understandable but not especially likable, a state of affairs that solves the film's intellectual problems even as it raises dramatic ones...
...talk show in Maine, someone called in recently to ask: "Why do we need a Governor at all? What can any of these men do for us?" Other callers immediately seized upon the same idea. With Watergate in the near past and the prospect of inflation stretching into the distant future, more than a few politicians are having trouble convincing voters that anybody can make a difference...
...eagerly grasping for a share of political power. In the center of the tier, meanwhile, yet another impotent center-left government fell in Italy last week, raising fears in some quarters that Communists might be allowed into the governing majority. In short, there was a clear although still distant danger that Communists might come to power across Europe's Mediterranean littoral. Items...
Saturday was disastrous for the Crimson. Light and shifty winds forced the squad into many mistakes, and the team finished the day in a distant seventh position. But the winds favored the Harvard squad on Sunday as the team outscored all squads for the day. Saturday's deficit was too great to overcome, and the Crimson had to settle for fourth place overall...
President Ford's clemency plan defies the recommendation of every religious body in America and rejects the principal point of 37 previous grants of presidential amnesty. By degrading those opposed to war, it invites further wars because, as President Kennedy wrote, "War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today...