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...talents to best advantage. Figures in a Landscape, which he made before The Go-Between, intermittently reveals him at his worst. Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell appear as two prisoners who have escaped from an anonymous jail in an unspecified country. They are pursued by a nameless army of faceless foes. Wherever they run, a helicopter hovers over them like a wrathful god. It is all very pompous, the kind of vague allegory that is open to any number of interpretations and able to sustain none...
...Niels Bohr and the soul of a tortured Dostoevsky hero. As a former Pentagon colleague put it: "Dan would have been an excellent Jesuit in another time. He has a perfect logical mind and an unbending sense of morality." Ellsberg was for a time one of those faceless bureaucrats who sit at the fulcrum of decision making and are privy to the most guarded information. Yet he has a marked capacity for excess. One friend says that his reversal from a pro-war to an unequivocal antiwar position is completely in character. "That's the kind...
...status, greed or need. Coles, after all, is a Harvard psychiatrist. He has been seen in the company of notebook and tape recorder. For more than a decade he has studied and written voluminously about troubled children, blacks, migrant workers-all subjects that are now ritually lamented in near-faceless collectivity as "problems...
...there was the Weather underground. Who could relate to a group of faceless terrorists? The bombing of the Center for International Affairs came and went, and nobody was particularly unhappy or particularly glad: it had nothing to do with...
Today, more than eleven years after becoming a Death House resident, I am doing precisely what I began doing the very first day: waiting for a remote, faceless group of judges to decide what may be my final appeal...