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...there is a studied ambivalence in all my attempts to come to grips with the war. And in that respect I feel kinship with the Frances FitzGerald and admiration for her attempt to bridge the gap between personal experience and historical resolution in Fire in the Lake...
...this Vidal has at least been faithful to the content, style and tone of Burr's own writing. The kinship of author and subject goes beyond elegant barbs at the high and mighty. Vidal seems especially appreciative of Burr's almost classical stoic outlook, a view reflected in Vidal's own works. Yet the question remains, why read a kind of digest of the life of Aaron Burr when there are sympathetic biographies and Burr's own letters and diaries available? The answer: Most of us will not take the trouble. In the interests of Burrian...
...presiding genius was winsome Pogo Possum, once described by his creator as "the reasonably patient, softhearted, naive, friendly little person we all think we are." Kelly himself claimed kinship with his gruff alligator; to the politicians and fat cats Kelly caricatured, the resemblance was clear. But to those who saw him away from his drawing board, joyously discussing his creatures as if they were real, Kelly displayed all the gentler traits of the possum...
ISRAEL WHY is a three-hour-plus French documentary that explains very little but testifies to Director Claude Lanzmann's feeling of deep kinship with the country. Lanzmann is not, like Marcel Ophuls, a film essayist of strong and disturbing insight, and he is not an especially acute documentarian either. He has caught some moments of warmth, others of search and irresolution and precipitate fulfillment, but the question posed in the title remains unanswered...
...instruct a Harvard athlete, who found that Cambridge was a nice place to visit but however to begin, to continue, or ever to consider coaching at. Goldston, a man who never fit into the black atmosphere, who never wanted to create, not tried, nor even recognized the "brother" kinship of blacks at Harvard, who bore charges of "Uncle Tom" with a brusque and abrasive stoicism and who had a series of alleged confrontations with prospective black athletes. Ralph Goldston and his similes are gone. What can you do about Ralph Goldston...