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Carter called two special sessions with top foreign policy advisers and insisted that they curtail any substantive comment on Iran policy. One official who did speak out was Andy Young, the ambassador to the United Nations; he predicted that "Khomeini will be somewhat of a saint when we get over the panic." Said Presidential Aide Jody Powell when asked about the remark: "The U.S. Government is not in the canonization business...
...inanimate object. But in this case, the Berlin Wall qualifies for the role. If Curtis Cate's richly detailed, gripping history has a villain, however, it lacks a hero. For the author, a longtime commentator on European affairs and a biographer of George Sand and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, strongly implies that the Wall would never have been built if the Western Allies had shown a little more sophistication and a little less fear...
That is what happens in the current instance. Despite its title, Julius Caesar is Brutus' play. It is the tragedy of a philosopher-saint. From the beginning, he is morally wary of Cassius' insinuative efforts to draw him into a conspiracy against Caesar. Yet his love for Rome renders him vulnerable. He asks Cassius to speak openly...
...Manhattan's Citicorp Building), is done with impeccable taste and graced with skilled key performances that equal or surpass anything to be seen at present in the New York theater. Displaying no cosmetically applied malignancies, Philip Anglim 's Merrick is like some sort of simple, twisted saint...
...narrative between the third and the first person--"There comes a time in a man's life," he explains in the midst of crisis, "when he thinks of himself in the third person"--but never varies in his ribald, poetic, heart-driven rhetoric. Revolutionary and demagogue, seducer and saint, political puritan and sexual adventurer, he sees Kush as an extension of himself--a citadel of purity besieged by the persistent corruption of American capitalism and, worse, Western morals. He rejects it all, railing and carping in Updike's brilliant satirization of tunnel-eyed Marxist bombast, and secures...