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...With the Wind, such classics are difficult to rival while remaining within the classic war story framework. Moreover, some of the film's predictability is simply a product of historical circumstances. No war film can avoid including film-reels and airraid practices, for example, and it is hard to fault the director for the limited number of responses the circumstance of war creates (Can you imagine a mother rejoicing over her son's draft notice...
Most of The New Yorker's vices, as Ingersoll told it, were the fault of the White family...
Director Tony Richardson's faithful adaptation of the living novel is perhaps the movie's greatest fault Irving's prose has a subtle ability to suspend reality and carry the reader smoothly along from one fabuluously bizarre episode to another: But seen on a 15 foot screen these same fabulous events have all the subtlety and appeal of Bozo the clown. For example, the movie's motto "Keep passing the open windows" (i.e. don't jump out) somehow sounds much less embarrassing and trite when you read it in the privacy of your own home than when you hear...
Stein finds plenty of fault with President Reagan's supply-side promises...
...Dallek survey is that, like Schell's Fate of The Earth, it shows the breadth of the Reagan game--the extent to which his is a government of symbols, the depth of the problem. If Dallek, like Schell, seems to offer no realistic solutions, you can't fault him for it. If the success of Reaganism has shown anything, it is that it is hard to beat pure emotion with thoughtful analysis. Dallek's quandary is well phrased by Year's oft-quoted words: "The best lack all conviction but the worst are filled with a passionate intensity." Despite Dallek...