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Red Ladder. On his return to Peking, Malraux had a long talk with Premier Chou Enlai, followed by a banquet at which Malraux and Chen Yi tossed flowers at each other. Of Red China and France, Malraux said, "It's true that our social systems are different. It is...
"To quote President Johnson again, "safely and peace" are not certainly "in the retreat or in weakness." Perhaps they exist in the admission of the major powers that each nation must choose by itself its own destiny and the form of its government, whatever that form may be. This seems...
By a vote of 8 to 2, the Maryland Court of Appeals last week forbade that trial on the grounds that a prosecutor is obliged to disclose only "exculpatory evidence," meaning decisive facts "capable of clearing or tending to clear the accused of guilt." As the court saw it, the...
Burnished Symbols. In a way, death was what the Finzi-Continis had always wanted; and it is Author Bassani's subtle achievement to have described their lives with compassion but without sentimentality. His style is graceful, disciplined, direct. Occasional Italicisms will distract American readers, and few of the characters...
Watching The Informer is rather like being hit with a sledgehammer. In case the title doesn't get the point across, Brecht uses a prologue and epilogue, both Fraught with Meaning, to drived his point home. And the point is so hackneyed that I found myself trying to read between...