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Building a national sense of urgency about the energy situation will take considerable powers of persuasion ? but then, Jimmy Carter seems as adept at using the bully pulpit of the presidency to persuade people as anyone since Teddy Roosevelt and his distant cousin Franklin. Carter seems almost to relish the coming combat. As he said last week, he intends to "convince the American people of the truth, using whatever means that I have at my command." Added Carter: "I believe that when they see the truth, they will cooperate in trying to cut down the waste of energy." This...
Darwin truly was a devotee of the old school and although the selections in every way retain their infectious appeal, it is best to relish Mostly Golf in the Pickwickian sense. One is transported into a long forgotten and a more idyllic world that belies reality. Mostly Golf conveys the indian summer tranquillity of Victorian England before the First otherwise sleepy hamlets turned out for cricket matches and the landed aristocracy played over the heath and whins of sedate seaside links...
...significant step up. But for the major characters in John Cheever's fiction, suburbia is a definite step down. His Wapshot family, for example, traced its lineage to colonial New England and to the patriarchal Leander Wapshot who advised his clan to "bathe in cold water every morning. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord...
...arms control, Princeton's Robert G. Gilpin, a professor of international politics, worried that Carter was "exposing his hands too early and encouraging the Russians to probe how far they can go in extracting further concessions." Other experts noted that the Russians do not relish negotiating so openly and almost certainly will insist that their own positions be stated only in secrecy across the bargaining tables...
Most of the movie takes place during one awful night in the sleepless imagination of a dying novelist (played with fierce relish by John Gielgud). Trying to construct a final fiction, his mind keeps moving his son (Bogarde), his son's wife (Ellen Burstyn), his bastard progeny (David Warner) and his own dead wife (Elaine Stritch) around a mythical country. His vision of his dear ones is, to say the least, misanthropic. They are cold, loveless creatures, incapable of responding to one another except by lobbing epigrams, Wildean in rhythm but not in wit, back and forth...