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...Communists into starting serious negotiations. But if that does not happen in Paris, he will not be very surprised. In fact, if serious talks with the North Vietnamese are possible, they will most likely take place in secret-where most statecraft is accomplished-rather than at sessions that lend themselves to propaganda displays. The Administration has more confidence in Vietnamization than in talks and expects the war to come to some kind of halt no matter what happens at the conference table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL NOTES: Silence in Paris | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...turned out, Feltrinelli's inept sabotage attempt probably did a disservice to his Maoist sympathizers. The scandal over his misbegotten effort will presumably lend new appeal to the law-and-order campaign of Italy's neo-fascist party in the current election campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Disconcerting Failure | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

...actors do little to enliven the improbable but predictable proceedings. Peter Yates keeps the general energy level so low that not even the masterly Zero Mostel, as a shyster lawyer, can lend any perceptible zest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Schlemiel Quartet | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

...like a swimmer like a discus thrower in slow motion. The words "let's not," fairer sounding in Russian than in English, are repeated throughout the poem. Writing poems for the public arena necessarily affects the poet's style. He will employ the devices and genres that best lend themselves to lyricism and incantation. The formal qualities of poetry become subject to dramatic techniques. Yevtushenko's art, such as it is, is shaped by these factors. The sound of "let's not" gave me the auditory vision of a flake of snow swaying downward against a winter landscape. Nothing wrong...

Author: By Richard Dey, | Title: Yevtushenko: Lightweight in a Heavyweight's Garden | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...mostly vain attempt to lend substance to these goings-on, there is a subplot involving a romance between a rich Jewish beauty and an impover ished gigolo who is masquerading as an Aryan. There are also solemn but su perficial references to Nazis and inti mations of the holocaust to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Liza: Ja--the Film: Nein | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

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