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Here the Thirties feeling is all the more pervasive for being less superfluous. It runs from the opening titles, done in black and white and period lettering, through the flat, distant photos Giddis takes on the job--these open the film, coming into the picture before it widens out into color and Gittis's office--and to such of the camera's fascinations as frosted glass in office doors...
...Administration in foreign affairs, as in every other sphere, was being cramped by Watergate. This fact may be one reason for the recent subtle change in the relationship between the Secretary and the President. Though the two men still agree on the basics of policy, Kissinger now seems more distant from the President than he did one or two months...
Worldwide the situation is not much different. Finland leads Europe in the numbers of highly placed women, with Sweden a fairly distant second, but Britain and France are not progressing toward sexual parity any faster than the U.S. There are far more women than men in medicine in the Soviet Union, on the other hand, while 37% of the country's lawyers and 32% of its engineers are female...
Americans have followed Alexander Solzhenitsyn's distant struggle with the Soviet government and his final, forced hegira into exile with the kind of awe that might attend the trial and burning of Joan of Arc. He is the world's most celebrated writer. The Gulag Archipelago, with massive printings now pouring its cornucopia of Communist cruelties into book clubs and bookstores all over the U.S., seems about to become his most popular work...
...tomato juice, toasting each other. They traded quips, squeezed one another's elbows and floated down the lines of dignitaries on their special cloud of power and personal rapture. It was a curious sight, this American President, whose relationship with his own people is so fragile and distant, so joyously in the embrace of a Communist dictator, so transported in the grandeur of the Kremlin, where the Czars once walked...