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Another problem: In the book we feel strangely close to the admittedly despicable Herman; we perceive him crumbling, and we experience a violent shock when reality and the law close quickly in on him at the end. But the movie keeps its distance. This detatchment could be Bogarde's fault...
After the Congressional meetings, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Frank Church (D-Idaho) quoted Sadat as saying that "If the Arab countries do not immediately perceive the great stride that has been made they will soon come to perceive it."
If there is any one outstanding characteristic of Mr. Nixon's public career, it is his lifelong inability to perceive the true nature of power in politics and differentiate its use from its abuse. It behooves all Americans to remember this as they contemplate his resurgence.
Deeply wounded by events spawned from his own dream for Iran, the Shah last week was searching for ways to calm his troubled people. His son, Crown Prince Reza, now in advance fighter-pilot training in Texas, telephoned his father and suggested that he try a dialogue with his opponents...
Through that living voice, living people begin to inhabit the stage: the scribes and Pharisees, hardened by suspicion and orthodoxy; the Disciples, stalwart but muddled; Jesus himself, patient and determined but often exasperated ("Perceive ye not yet, neither understand?").