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...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). George C. Scott plays a World War II sub captain in a dilemmatic moment: Japanese ships are cross-haired in his periscope as the atom bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. To fire torpedoes, or not to fire...
Baro Finkelstone, the hero of Leslie Fiedler's latest novel, is a travesty of all the middle-aged Jewish liberals who ever lived in fiction. Pain is his pleasure. Having flagellated himself for Hiroshima, the plight of the Negro and the predicament of the American, he innocently demands: "Just tell me one thing I've done wrong." But in order to know that he is innocent, Finkelstone must suffer as though he were guilty, and Author Fiedler, who as a critic is the U.S.'s leading Freudian, cunningly assists his hero to find familiar occasions of guilt...
Console in the Pit. For one scene there was a nightmarish montage of "scenes of injustice"-a Negro lynching, street riots, the desolation of Hiroshima, decaying bodies stacked in graves -flashed on dozens of various-sized screens, some dropped from the flies, others held aloft by the chorus in a jigsaw pattern. While the words "And you? Are you blind like a herd of cattle?" appeared on one screen, the TV cameras raked the audience and projected their faces onstage in self-conscious closeups...
...about John Hersey. He asked for the silver tongue; he was given the golden touch. He longed to write great novels that would endure for centuries; he has written magnificent volumes of journalism that make the Book of the Month Club. Into the Valley and Hiroshima are classics of reportage. All Hersey's best novels (A Bell for Adano, The Wall, A Single Pebble) are lightly fictionalized feature stories lifted from current history. His worst novels (The Marmot Drive, The Child Buyer) are nonjournalistic creations of an uncreative imagination. But even in the bad novels Author Hersey has always...
...proof, McNamara pointed out that the U.S. has placed in NATO more than 800 ICBMs, more than 300 Polaris missiles and hundreds of bombers. The aggregate yield of nukes stored in Germany alone, McNamara added, is more than 5,000 times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb...