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...After keeping this secret for 15 cataleptic years, Howard hardly believes it himself, and surrenders to stand trial in Israel as a war criminal. At length Washington relents, and Howard is freed. Yet freedom is the last thing he wants. A private hero and a public traitor, a pawn sacrificed to patriotism, he sentences himself to death "for crimes against himself." Author Vonnegut's writing style is a long way from Parnassus; the satire sometimes vanishes in polemic...
Coates immediately denied any ill will toward Ward. Councillor Bernard Goldberg turned around and accused Velucci of using Ward as a pawn, trying to create an issue for his own political advantage. Vellucci only repeated his charges all the more strongly...
...uprising began in earnest on March 10 when Ky's junta dismissed Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, long considered Ky's chief rival for power within the Directory. Administration experts are convinced that the ambitious little general was only Tri Quang's pawn. "Thi's dismissal simply gave the movement a little more whammy," said a top State Department expert. In Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy's view, Tri Quang's men want to "accelerate the timetable" for a change in government in order to set up "a constitution and elections that would...
...change means an entirely different approach to student loans," he said. "The colleges are concerned with education; the banks, with profit; it is a bad mistake to downgrade education to the three balls of a pawn shop...
...espionage as a grubby, ulcer-making career at best. The movie version is a masterwork in a minor key. Avoiding formula excitement, Producer-Director Martin Ritt (Hud) achieves something far superior-a climate of still, absolute insecurity that conveys menace mainly through undertones. And Richard Burton, playing the chief pawn in an involuted cold-war plot, will be measured from now on against his full, corrosive performance here. To have read le Carré can only heighten one's relish of Burton's collision with the prickly dialogue supplied by Scenarists Guy Trosper and Paul Dehn...