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...surprise of many Westerners who knew him well in the past, Rakowski has become an ardent defender of the repression that began on Dec. 13. Is he a patriot who truly believes the crackdown will save his country from chaos? An idealist turned pragmatist who hopes to preserve some of the reforms won before the declaration of martial law? Or is he just an opportunist enjoying his place at the fulcrum of power? Those who know him well agree upon only one point: Rakowski is a survivor...
...evoke the fervor and spiritual elevation of German art in the '20s-Nolde, Beckmann, Kirchner, Macke. If only it could! What we get, it turns out, is more art about art about art, another small room in the mirror-lined flophouse of late modernity. This sort of idealist regression seems either contrived or inept, and sometimes both. It mimics deep feeling, but in an oblique and often perfunctory...
...call for unquestioning loyalty, exclaiming that if you purge dissent you purge what's unique in a man, and he's answered by a tremendous explosion that signals a White-army attack. That's a good, absorbing scene, one of a couple in the second half that pit idealist against politician. But they all have that Robert Bolt-Q.E.D. quality. Bolt's latest play; in fact, State of Revolution (1977) is an absorbing, overly tidy account of Leninism disfigured by and dissolving into Stalinism, and there are echoes of it all over Reds. Reed and Emma Goldman (Maureen Stapleton...
WHETHER AS AN ANTI-WAR ORGANIZER or as a disciple of neo-conservative professors, David Stockman has been an idealist. He has faithfully maintained that there is acoherent set of rules by which the world can and should work. So when he arrived in Washington, full clear hopes and plans for restoring "fiscal control", his frustration was inevitable. A capacity for frustrated idealism rarely lead, to lasting success in Washington. But there is a double sense in which we should be grate ful that Stockman had that capacity. For one thing, idealistic public officials appear infrequently enough to learn...
...dreaming, contrasted with the others. When the two hippies get blown away at the end, sure, you hate the hicks for doing it, but it's hard to feel deep loss when the rootless bikers are such egotistical fuck-ups; are they the future of America? But when lofty idealist George Hansen is killed in his sleep near a campfire that has recently glowed with hope for humanity, never knowing what hit him, your gut plummets. Is this America...