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America's national defense and prestige have risen even more conspicuously. Our support for the British defense of the Falkland Islands, the selfless service of Marines as a peacekeeping force in Lebanon, the lifting of the senseless Soviet gram embargo, the election of a free government in H. Salvadot and the advent of peace negotiations there, the withdrawal of martial lass restrictions upon the people of Poland, and marked growth in relations with Communist China ill represent significant international achievements...
TartufFe is the alias of a trickster who poses as a selfless holy man; he induces a pious bourgeois to part with his money, his house, his daughter's hand in marriage and, ultimately, his most dangerous possession, a cache of incriminating documents left by a friend who has fled into exile. In his infatuation with Tartuffe, the good, decent Orgon alienates almost every member of his household; yet when ruin strikes, they rally loyally to him. The crucial question for every production is whether Orgon (a role Moliere himself played) deserves this fidelity. Is TartufFe an obvious rogue...
...captures the mystical, earthy qualities of mother-hood and spiritual creativity, two of her central themes. She recounts the poet Jean Toomer's discovery in the South of the 1920's women: whose spirituality was so intense, so deep, so unconscious, that they held. In the selfless abstractions their bodies became to the men who used them, they became more than "sexual objects," more even than more women they became "Saints". Instead of being perceived as whole persons, their bodies became shrines what was thought to be their minds became temples suitable for worship. These crazy Saints stared...
...make him take the rap for several murders. In the role of this unlucky real estate agent, Jean-Louis Trintignant must content himself with moping about and rather churlishly criticizing the brisk, brave and far-darting efforts of Barbara, his secretary, to clear his name. It is a disciplined, selfless performance...
...CONSISTENCY of the roles of three families is probably justified by the rigid class structure of Polish society and the book makes that point well. But it does not explain the precasting of the three families who serve as protagonists: the major nobles are wise and selfless, the petty nobles brave, but not extremely intelligent, the peasants stalwart and forthright. Under the combined weight of political and individual stereotypes, Poland is merely a vehicle for the characters' political platitudes. Even in the most romantic and stirring public scenes, personal characters get buried. The following is a scene from turn...