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...trying to reach people's minds," says Goldman, "to rekindle the excitement you felt when you first encountered the great professor or the great book or the great concept." ID does not always work as a package. Covers infrequently compel, and the calculated clutter tends to overwhelm on occasion. Goldman concedes that his selection of content is "ultimately a terribly personal thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Idea Mill | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...been a sharp surge of small-scale fighting in the Delta, a region that the U.S. military once boasted had been virtually pacified; no fewer than 300 government outposts have been destroyed there since the offensive began. President Thieu is said to believe that if the Communists could overwhelm 50% of the Delta, as well as maintain their hold on ground they have gained elsewhere, they just might be willing to settle for President Nixon's cease-fire proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIETNAM: New Arms, More Bombs | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...should be directed at Eric Blau and Mort Shuman--who translated the songs and are guilty of "additional material"--or perhaps at Brel himself. Some of the songs--notably "Fanette" and the finale "If We Only Have Love"--are trite and slurpy. The cast was good enough to overwhelm Brel's lack of ideas with its own fire but Blau and Shuman's unfortunate use of the English language is sometimes jarring. (Rochman is obliged to shout that he wants to be "cute, cute, cute, in a stupid...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well | 5/5/1972 | See Source »

...countryside struck directly at the strength and potential appeal of the Viet Cong. For ten years the Viet Cong has waged a rural revolution against the Central Government, with the good Maoist expectation that by winning the support of the rural population it could eventually isolate and overwhelm the cities. The "first outstanding feature...of People's Revolutionary War, as developed by Mao Tse-tung and refined by the North Vietnamese in the two Indochina wars." Sir Robert Thompson argued in a recent issue of this journal, "is its immunity to the direct application of mechanical and conventional power...

Author: By Samuel P. Huntington, | Title: Viet Nam: The Bases of Accommodation | 2/22/1972 | See Source »

...with The Arrangement, in which a middle-aged adman turns intellectual and works up a healthy sweat over old values and a new woman. The prose was rough cut; the characters were slabs of emotional clichés. Kazan was not out to master the novel form but to overwhelm it on his way to the movie script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shadow of the Beast | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

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