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...characters and episodes come faster and the unifies of time and space begin to soften, a certain flattening of emotions increases. In the last episode memory breaks down, events lose their poignancy, and the number of characters prevents deep involvement with any of them. A quality of regret and detachment, of precise character-description without emotional immediacy, leads us out of the drama as it completes its circular plan. Ophuls, like Sirk, believes that art should establish distances...
...Ronde's final fascination lies in the terms on which Ophuls offers his drama to us. His other films enlarge the audience's moral awareness of its experience by developing the implications of their styles. Our enjoyment of Madame de... shifts toward regret when we see that its sweeping camera motions are imprisoning its characters in dances through time. The vulgarity of our love of spectacle and self-revelation turns Lola Montes into a terrible humiliation of its heroine...
...runaway, can cerous technocracy, Agnew's audiences are suggestible to his appeals to a "Love It or Leave It" America. In Harrisburg. Pa., two weeks ago. Agnew attacked the more militant dissidents as "vultures" and declared: "We can afford to separate them from our society with no more regret than we should feel over discarding rotten apples from a barrel." What did he mean by separation? Expulsion? Concentration camps...
Equally unsettling was the Vice President's attack on the more militant dissident leaders. Describing them as "parasites of passion," "merchants of hate" and "vultures," Agnew said: "We can afford to separate them from our society with no more regret than we should feel over discarding rotten apples from a barrel." He did not specify how this purge would be accomplished...
...Milton Katz '27, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, said, "I regret the nomination as falling below the standards that seem to me generally appropriate to the Supreme Court of the United States and especially important to maintain at the present time...