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...matured into world leadership, American men go to the movies to see not girls but women. This has even become the epoch of the opulent jade, all the Melina Mercouris and Jeanne Moreaus, whose frank stares suggest a fully ripened hell and provoke an uncontrollable urge to total ruin...
Aristocratically, he refused to read translations. Finally, near the end of his life, he began to write. The fragment of a novel included in the present book carries the theme of The Leopard-the ruin of the noble traditions-into the 20th century...
...increasingly fretful at being kept in the dark over Der Spiegel, their advice was sound. What Dr. Adenauer does now will determine the pattern of German politics for years. If he seriously tries to mend the liberal institutions which the last month has shown to be trembling close to ruin, his rescue of democracy in Germany may be conclusive. So sordid has the Government's treatment of the Spiegel case looked this far that a fair settlement will involve its losing face rather than saving it. It is up to the Chancellor to see if, after all, he can give...
...when the Bounty spreads sail for Jamaica, Bligh's brutalities resume. To save water for the breadfruit trees, he denies it to the crew. In a rage the lieutenant takes over the ship, sets Bligh and his supporters adrift in an open boat. But then, realizing the ruin he has brought upon himself and all his men, he collapses...
...with the same lack of knowledge that the Student demonstrates in the first scene. Like us, he wavers between condemnation of Hummel for the heinous sins done to his father and sympathy for the Old Man because of the telling presence of his mortality, the moments when decay and ruin reduce Hummel to a state of absolute dependency on the understanding of at least one human being--in this case, the student. What are we to think when Hummel, who rises to a height of awful vindicativeness toward the end of the second scene, is suddenly reduced and piteously destroyed...