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...that is the drift of the directing throughout. Brook is impatient with peripheral events and dispenses with them as often as possible. He uses explanatory titles to speed up the action and cuts scenes mercilessly. It is toward the great events that his imagination tends--Lear raging at Cordelia or mad in the storm on the heath or overwhelmed with regret before his death--and on these scenes Brook lavishes his attention lovingly. To the Gloucester subplot he is for the most part cursory. He reserves his ingenuity for Lear alone. And as Lear, Paul Scofield carries the film...
Pretty intricate issues. Ulam ignores them. By studying "good intentions" in a vacuum, he misses the drift of American foreign policy. His "analysis" of Vietnam is typically shallow and absurd. Contradicting the consensus of past and present critics (including such men as President Eisenhower). Ulam contends that Ngo Dinh Diem would have won had elections been held in 1956. "It is a testimony not so much to his undemocratic propensities as to his political clumsiness, one should think, that Diem did not insist on having elections," he writes. What evidence has he for this astonishing conclusion? "The partition of Vietnam...
...what is known as an "oil-drum culture" among Eskimos living on Point Barrow. Discarded oil barrels are used for garbage containers and toilets; once filled, the malodorous barrels are dumped onto the ice to be carried out to sea when the ice melts. But all too often they drift back to shore...
...offer. The popular Gilbert & Sullivan Players perform twice a year: Lowell House and Leverett House sponsor opera in the spring. All of these groups--along with Charlie Kletzsch's indefatigable Dunster musicians and their midnight clavichord concerts--are more or less permanent. Other groups come and go as members drift to and from the blessed attractions of political activism...
...have known Hatfield only for his politics. His direction has been clear, he explains in one brief, unemotional passage, ever since a night in 1954 when he sat in a room at his parents' home thinking about the purpose of his life. "I could not continue to drift along, going to church because I had always gone," he writes. "I saw that for 31 years I had lived for self, and I decided I wanted to live the rest of my life for Jesus Christ...