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Such opinions made him increasingly uncomfortable in the military. Some times he amuses himself at parties by playing a truculent young Patton ("If we could just blow out those goddamn dikes up North"). Privately his conversation runs to Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Browning. The night the B-52s started bombing Hanoi and Hai phong, Bunting said: "Can we react any more? I don't know. But this makes me physically sick." · Lance Morrow
...Grad Chorale always includes a commissioned work on its programs and always by a composer within the Harvard community. Two of John Stewart's pieces were given premieres last Friday: his Pie Jesu (1965) and The Windhover (1971), a setting of the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem. The latter was by far the better piece. Beginning and ending with female voices only in tone clusters, it calls for seven winds and string bass--all of which were first rate. There is some use of klangfarbenmelodie, the production of a melodic line with varied tone colors, but only with the instruments...
...date is the need to improve the Washington-Moscow hot line to enable officials to find out quickly whether an unidentified missile has been fired accidentally by the other superpower - or deliberately by China. Reflecting concern about the future of the talks, the cooly patient U.S chief negotiator, Gerard C. Smith, will fly to Washington this week for White House-level consultations on where SALT goes next...
...Gerard Menuhin, son of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, was born in Edinburgh when his parents were there for a music festival. Now Gerard, a film editor in London, must return to the U.S. by his 23rd birthday on July 23, and live in the U.S. for five years or lose his American citizenship. Ironically, his younger brother Jeremy. 19, has spent less time in the U.S. but does not face the same danger; he was born in the U.S. Says their father: "It seems illogical to divide two brothers with the same parents and the same experience in life because...
Bresson's technique in this regard owes much to literary symbolism. Balthazar is a vessel for emotional associations that multiply as the film proceeds. He is a symbol of the promises of Jacques and the physical love of Gerard. He is a sexual substitute. He is the personification of stoicism. He is variously called a saint, a genius and an anachronism. By the end of the film, he is an embodiment of the whole complex of dramatic relationships...