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...March 14 The Indiscriminate Woman (NBC, 3-4 p.m.).* A study of the plight of the wom an who tries to escape inner conflict by engaging in fleeting affairs. Starring Carol Lawrence and Dane Clark. Pauline Fred erick narrates. Color...
Bleak Theme. Marguerite Yourcenar has set down the story of the doomed Baltic civilization in a fable so barely told (in translation from the French) as to suggest basic English. It suits her bare, bleak theme. Her narrator is Erick von Lohmond of the Teutonic gentry. Too young for World War I, he grows up into one of the crudest of civil wars. The Red soldiers who come sweeping through the Baltic birch forests so hate the Czarist military system that when they capture a White officer they nail his hated epaulets to his shoulders or, because the officers...
...Erick's Francophile father had been killed fighting with the Germans against the French. His own fate is equally clouded. With no faith or much hope he fights as a young officer against the Reds. Symbolically, the fortunes of war drive him to Kratovits, where he had spent a happy boyhood as a friend of Conrad, heir to the Counts of Reval. For Conrad and Erick there is nothing to do but to fight on fatalistically. Conrad is all gallantry, but his sister Sophie almost welcomes the destruction of their life...
...Second Shot. As a student, she had been half-carried away by the dream of a free, liberal Russia, and much impressed with the political ideas of a Jewish fellow student, now a Red officer. Sophie's new and growing love for Erick is rejected and she crosses class, family and historical lines to go over to the Reds. Presently, Conrad is killed; his sister is captured and sentenced to death as a turncoat. In a scene of cutting irony the White soldier, who usually performs the executions with his pistol, comes to Erick and reports: "She orders . . . that...
Everything was over with the Baltic barons. Erick goes on to international adventuring with a gun for hire in Spain, the Gran Chaco and Manchuria, not with any ideological passion but simply because for one of his birth and background, there seems to be nothing else to do. His is a fable of one who survived-but did not live...