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...Nixon's planned visit to Peking is more significant in sounding the death knell of the Chiang regime than in opening the door to the U.N. for Communist China. Let the world not forget that the responsibility for the loss of China to the Communists must be laid squarely on the shoulders of Chiang and his in-laws. No amount of whitewash could cleanse them of their guilt of misrule, corruption and greed. Shed no tears for their demise...
...affected. But Death in Venice works, as a tale, a moral instruction and as art. Of all authors, Mann was the least ingenuous. He deliberately chose the Romantic mode to bid adieu to the romantic mood. Through the spacious andante of Death in Venice, one can hear the contrapuntal knell of the 19th century with all its values, poses and styles...
...Faculty resolution was final as death, yeh, final as death. No one attempted to renegotiate. The death knell tolled and no one did a thing," he said...
...smile," she mourns. True, all too true. The spaniel packs a lunch and entrains for Italy. But the old union is doomed. Giovanna has a lover, a bambino (Carlo Ponti Jr.) and a job sandpapering the rumps of clothing dummies. Henry Mancini's calorific music sounds the knell for Antonio. He gets its message and entrains to Russia, to Mascia and the glorious new housing project where the balalaikas play...
When John and Yoko met over Eurasia, they attempted to knell the death of rational thought. Our small minds are fearful of forfeiting that thinking, because we are the proletariat and are still so much at the mercy of the world that we wish to continue thinking in its terms. When told to change our heads, instead we insist on worrving about our bread. The Beatles and Yoko are into something that only a fool won't envy, but somehow the Stones are closer to recognizing the realities which box all but a lucky few. Before concluding that you like...