Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...block the advance of the communist troops. Other areas received similar treatment by the South Vietnamese army. The Washington Post reported as early as March that officials in Saigon had ordered civilians in the central highlands to evacuate, so that Saigon could destroy these areas, through air strikes without regard for the civilian population...
...Watched Films is to my knowledge the most up to date comprehensive study of Czech cinema available in English. Avoiding the technical, pseudo -professional jargon usually associated with film criticism, he presents an illuminating analysis of the origins of Czech film's new wave of the 60's. With regard to the difficulties of filmmaking in the 1950s, Liehm says that "with the consolidation of a dictatorship that proved to be military-bureaucratic rather than revolutionary, it became increasingly clear that the liberation of the film from the dictates of the market meant its subjugation to the dictates...
...rambling talk to 25 foreign journalists visiting his office last March, Alabama Governor George Wallace expressed some of his views on international affairs. Said he: "I think we were fighting the wrong people, maybe, in World War II, and I say that with all due regard to the Soviet, ah, person here...
...himself as a loner, "a wolf lost from the pack," but he is perhaps another kind of wolf as well. He has conducted affairs with several women-among them, dancers he has worked with-since arriving in the West last summer. He ended one of them with what friends regard as chilly abruptness...
...good political novel. Lumen is a sympathetic enough figure but it's hard to take either him or his dilemma too seriously. After 348 pages of diary writing he concludes that "it's far too late for anything I do to make a difference in how I am regarded by posterity." This has been apparent to the reader all along and it's never become clear why posterity will regard him at all. Swados never establishes Lumen as a representative figure like Rubashov in Darkness at Noon: at best, he's a composite of Bertrand Russell and William O. Douglas...