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...saddest event of the Eisenhower years has been the decline of the America of Point Four, Korea and the Marshall Plan, into the vague, insubstantial good will of a traveling man from the White House. The time has come to put meaning back into that good will, and substance into the idea of an "area of freedom." Senator Kennedy has the understanding and intelligence to do just this, to meet the challenge of Soviet efforts and pressing world problems with genuine programs based on this country's real stake in the peace and stability of the world...
...across the U.S. last week, dozens of Air Force officers performed one of the saddest duties in the military: serving as couriers for the casualty division at Randolph A.F.B., near San Antonio. It had been the worst week for the Air Force since Tet 1968. Though only one flyer was known to have been killed, 38 Air Force crewmen were reported missing. Randolph passed along the news of each casualty to the Air Force unit nearest the home town of the next of kin. The officer assigned to the duty called for a blue staff car and drove...
...smile--which he has undoubtedly copyrighted--from amusement to sadness to despair. The two build a completely believable sense of understanding between their characters. When B.Z. gives up and takes an overdose of Seconal in front of Maria, she knows better than to try to dissuade him. In the saddest, most human moment of the film, she holds him and sings to him as he waits for death...
...accompanying biographical recollections by friends and colleagues reveal him as a man of courage, kindness and a very clear eye. But Burrows' images, which run back over the news events of the past 20 years in places like India, the Belgian Congo and Viet Nam, bear the saddest sort of witness to the way men use each other and their world...
...deprived the 20th century of the mature work of Franz Marc, August Macke, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Umberto Boccioni and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, as well as that of a young sculptor named Gaudier-Brzeska who might well have rivaled Brancusi in his contribution to modernism. One of the saddest casualties was a German who never fought, the sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck. "Who stayed behind after these murders?" he wrote in January of 1918, after moving to Switzerland to escape military service...