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...Nazis and the Viet Minh, humiliatingly ousted from Morocco and Tunisia, evacuated from Suez, the French army has salved its pride by ascribing all its reverses to "betrayal by the politicians." Its mutinous spirit was not ragtag but austere: a conviction that they who did the dirty fighting are purest of heart, and entitled to sit in judgment upon the acts of the state. "Conditional loyalty," Old Soldier De Gaulle called...
...Wisconsin campaign. As he talked, he made clear his special role in the 1960 campaign: of all the leading candidates and contenders, he is the only one unashamedly setting himself out in the fine old-fashioned role of the poor boy* who values above mother's milk the purest, hundred-proof liberalism, bottled 25 years ago in the bond of the New Deal. Says he: "Liberals are waiting for a leader-one who stands out from the rest. My job is to go to the convention keeping my flame alive...
...told friends that if the Democratic convention should draft him for the nomination he would not refuse. No one who talks to Stevenson doubts that he will stay clear of the fight; his old bruises from the rough and tumble 1956 state primaries still pain him. But granted the purest of motives, he has chosen the wisest possible course for a two-time loser who might make a third...
...then, beset now-symbolizes a growing U.S. distaste for dictators. For decades the U.S. was accused of buttering up strongmen. Eager to thaw anti-Yankee Juan Perón, for example, the State Department sent Latin American Chief Henry Holland to Argentina in 1954 to toast the dictator for "purest sincerity." The U.S. propped Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somosa, who seized power after the Marines pulled out, on Franklin Roosevelt's theory that "he may be an s.o.b., but he's ours." In Peru, Military Strongman Manuel Odria got the Legion of Merit for running a tight...
There is little joy in the film because there is little joy in the book. Sister Luke rarely smiles. Where is the laughter of convent gardens, which has been called "the purest in the world"? After many years in which Sister Luke makes a grim effort to be a perfect nun and instead becomes a perfect nurse, she leaves her convent. The conflict as to "why" is not stressed so strongly in the film as in the book; the audience is left to ponder the "why." Her confessor in a darkened confessional scene tells Sister Luke that...