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...Franco regime is an ugly, if somewhat mellowed, relic of the fascist era, and with its denial of basic civil liberties cannot really be acceptable to the new Western European community, founded on respect for human rights. The problem is, however, that ostracism may have the effect of solidifying popular support for Franco, as it did under the ill-fated U.N. resolution for diplomatic isolation...
...present debate between conservative and liberal spokesmen is merely a "relic, a survival of what it used to be like when these distinctions really mattered," Lakoff told this week's session of the Hillel Round Table of World Affairs...
Wendy Hiller brings Miss Tina quiveringly to life, at first, touchingly timid, in the end, touchingly rash. Stunningly miscast as the Jamesian relic of a more gracious age. Franchise Rosay, with her Gallic accent and facial gestures, seems rooted in some irascible French family film. Maurice Evans elegantly elocutes lines that might better be spoken, but the talk is a smokescreen for a character that isn't there...
...revolution is both orderly and quick, its end "within sight of our own generation." Of his homeland. Luthuli said: "It is not necessary for me to speak at length about South Africa. It is a museum piece in our time, a hangover from the dark past of mankind, a relic of an age which everywhere else is dead or dying. Here the cult of race superiority and of white supremacy is worshiped like a god . . . Thus it is that the golden age of Africa's independence is also the dark age of South Africa's decline and retrogression...
Babes in Toyland (Disneyland). Victor Herbert's 1903 relic in a skillfully cut performance that goes off like a string of Roman candles. A handsome introduction to the man who made the Broadway musical work...