Word: leiser
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...lure of news in the raw though, it was wariness born of long experience as reporters that caused Cronkite'and his executive producer Ernest Leiser to hesitate and worry for hours over whether to run the now-famous film sequence showing U.S. Marines in August 1965 burning a Vietnamese village. Were the pictures fair to the U.S.? To the Marines? Or was their message somewhat out of balance? In the end, it was decided that the pictures were simply too good to pass up. So, along with a narration by CBS Correspondent Morley Safer, Cronkite's audience...
...hillside overlooking East Germany, the men who have molded the spy, a Pole named Leiser, silently shake his hand. They have come thus far together. Now he must go on alone. "There were no fine words," writes Author Le Carré, his eye fixed on the solitary figure going down the hill into the obliterating night shadows. "It was as if they had all taken leave of Leiser long...
This is Le Carré's dark point, struck like a funeral bell on nearly every page of this book. Leiser is doomed. He descends the hill to foreordained failure in his mission, sensing that those whom he wants to trust will, if it comes to that, abandon him. He has all the significance of a pawn, played and sacrificed in a game that itself has no meaning...
Rusty Skills. In contrast, The Looking Glass War is totally dehumanized. Leamas is believable; Leiser is not. The book's tension depends not so much on Leiser's spying mission to East Germany as on the efforts of a scorned and inferior arm of British intelligence ("the Department") to haul itself back into the Establishmentarian swim on Leiser's shoulders. With a typically British mixture of ineptness and guile, the seven men who still operate the Department in the drab house on Blackfriars' Road, jostle for position, portentously con "the Minister" for a bigger budget, extra...
Mein Kampf. A calm, fair, objective and appalling documentary of Hitler and his gruesome works, compiled from newsreels, Nazi propaganda pictures, Wehrmacht battle films and secret police footage by Swedish Film Maker Erwin Leiser...