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Black Sheep. Perhaps the most remarkable character interviewed is Christian de la Mazière, an aristocrat who, like many another young idealist, loathed the sordid confusion of French politics. He swallowed revolutionary ideology whole, and of the two forms possible to him in 1940-Communism or the Germans' national socialism- he chose the latter. This film follows De la Mazière all the way to the Eastern front where, in the uniform of the Waffen SS as part of the infamous Charlemagne division, he fought against the Russians. Rueful, logical, charming, ready to regret...
Through the '50s, Irving continued to travel and write. In 1957 he published his second novel, The Losers, a New York chronicle of a businessman-idealist and an artist-opportunist. It is narrated by a cartoonist. With great pride, Irving quotes Poet Robert Graves as calling it "the best short novel I have read in 20 years." That is by far the most extravagant praise his works have ever drawn. His next book, The Valley, was an adult western published in 1961. In 1966 came The Thirty-Eighth Floor, about an American black who becomes acting U.N. Secretary-General...
...table or a seated nude, are bathed in a continuous, golden flow of subdued light; Bailey's world is unspecific in nearly everything except the insistent, forming pressure of his drawing. Corners meet and windows describe their rectangles with the cool inevitability of geometric abstraction. And its idealist, detached tone is very different from the concrete vigor of the man who must be, by now, America's leading realist: Philip Pearlstein...
...Gandhi is at least a match for Yahya Khan. As the only daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, she was carefully groomed for leadership and grew up an adored and beloved "child of the nation." From her father she inherited a sense of grace under pressure, but where he was the idealist, she is much more the pragmatist. As one political commentator observed: "Her father was a dreamer who did not act decisively. The people loved Nehru, but ihey are impressed by Indira's ability to make decisions and make them firmly and fast." In elections last March, Indians gave Indira...
...pilots, and when the play opens, his partner is in jail, taking the rap for him. Of Joe's two sons, one has been killed in action, and the other, Chris, intends to marry his dead brother's ex-fiance, the convicted partner's daughter. Chris is a strident idealist ashamed of having survived the war; material possessions sicken him, particularly if they have been acquired in the "merchants of death" fashion by profiting from the war. Miller concentrates on two shifting relationships: between Chris and his girl, and between Chris and his father. Joe Keller (like Willy Loman...