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...Chinese these days are on the diplomatic defensive. Fearful of being left to face Soviet military might alone, they have been strenuously attempting to head off détente between the Soviet Union and the West. In fact, their fears of the Soviets have put them in the peculiar position of practically giving their endorsement to Western military strength. Thus when French President Pompidou was in China recently, the Chinese bombarded him with warnings against becoming complacent about Soviet armed might, implicitly supporting France's atomic force. Equally close attention has been paid to rallying support in the developing...
...made what seems to be seem kind of auteur ultimate: a film where the director is himself the individual studied. Comparisons with Fellini's 8 1/2 are hard to avoid, and they are not to the advantage of Truffaut's film. Truffaut has even borrowed Fellini's peculiar crane shots, although he shunts aside mention of the similarities by saying that 8 1/2 is "more poetic...
During those speaking tours Agnew engaged in a series of attacks on liberal journalists, war resisters, and all those who departed from his own peculiar brand of law and order. Those attacks caused the most serious damage Agnew did to the country, for the vice presidency is fortunately a position almost totally lacking in power. Those attacks, which were discredited by their illogic when they were first made, were shown yesterday to be the rankest hypocrisy as well...
...snobbish attention to one kind of music to the exclusion of all others is something peculiar to our own times," he says. "In the 16th century, Palestrina used street songs in his Masses. Mozart and Beethoven wrote both classical and 'pop' music, and Bartok used the folk music of Hungary to build impressive symphonic works. The snobbism works both ways," he adds. "There are Rolling Stones freaks who won't listen to anything else either...
...southern historian, Donald says, begins his search with "an emotional resonance," and southern history becomes a peculiar problem of personal identity. Yet emotional commitment is a basic criterion for historians in general: "You have to have something at stake as you wade through raw material on any topic...