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...counted Anny Duperey as Stavisky's wife) with symbols of death: orchids, cemeteries, the funeral pyramid in the Pare Monceau. Resnais and his screenwriter, Jorge Semprun (Z), present their Stavisky as a doom-haunted manic-depressive and try to groom him into a symbol for all of prewar France. There is a subplot involving Trotsky, who had sought asylum in France during that time, and Resnais obviously hoped to suggest that the swindler and the Communist here represent in effect the two political alternatives between which the country had to choose. This notion remains unwieldy as a device...
...latest film draws not only on his youth but also on Europe's turbulent prewar years. In an interview with TIME'S Erik Amfitheatrof in his Rome office, Fellini unreeled an intensely personal vision of his work and his times...
...stopped-not only to save Israel, but, in his mind, to spare the world from the possibility of a big-power confrontation. The Soviet airlift and alert had changed his attitude about Israel's capacity to win a quick victory. Just as he had misjudged prewar intelligence, so too had he misjudged the will and capability of the Arabs and the duplicity of the Russians. He was now determined to open a massive airlift of American military supplies to Israel. 'We tried to talk in the first week,' Kissinger later explained. 'When that didn...
Haunting Memory. The old school system is still a haunting memory for most Japanese over 40, including TIME Correspondent S. Chang, who attended primary school in prewar Japan. "Teachers in the main were well trained and the system, on the academic side, did well," he recalled last week. "But it did far better in brainwashing pupils in the cult of emperor worship. The whole six-year compulsory education was dedicated to fukoku kyohei [enrich the nation, strengthen soldiers]. Boys in the class were shaven-pated like Japanese soldiers in their barracks. Like soldiers, too, they were expected to snap...
Having influenced fashion and the movies, something like the '30s look has returned to the political life of the Western world. Not since the querulous prewar years, certainly, have there been so many wobbly governments, imperiled leaders and shattered traditions in Western Europe and North America. Last week alone, a series of coincidental developments posed the astonishing prospect of almost overnight change in the mind and manners of several key governments, with deep implications for East-West detente and other matters of high policy...