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...tempered, and runs his staff with an iron hand. His chief hobby: collecting early 19th century glass. Waldheim's family is picture-perfect for his new public role. His wife Elisabeth ("Sissy") is justly renowned as a diplomatic hostess. Daughter Liselotte, 26, is a pretty U.N. civil servant in Geneva; Son Gerhard, 23, a law student, managed his father's presidential election campaign; and Daughter Christa, 12, attends a French lycée in New York...
...conceivable, of course, that all the present candidates to succeed him will be rejected in favor of some technocrat with no known enemies, such as Canada's Maurice Strong, 42, a wealthy former financial executive and top-level civil servant who also has the unusual distinction of speaking Eskimo. At a trade convention in Manhattan last week, Strong urged that the new Secretary-General revitalize the organization by drastically cutting its staff and undertaking "a major redeployment of resources." Others have suggested that the U.N. Secretariat abandon its traditional but none too successful efforts at peace making...
Though the same team has given us two other films dealing luxuriously with upper-class rot (The Servant and Accident), The Go-Between begins with images and words which suggest that tired tricks are abandoned, and that Losey and Pinter have put a novelistic concentration of characterization and detail on the screen. The credits are projected against a raindropped windowpane: we see glimpses of green foliage and a manor-like brown blur. A pitted voice speaks: "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there...
Though Lynch grew up during a seminal era for Irish republicanism, there is nothing radical in his background. Once a noted athlete (soccer and hurling, a rough form of field hockey) he became a civil servant, then a lawyer, and was a relatively undistinguished Minister of Finance when opposing Fianna Fail factions chose him Prime Minister. While he was a legal clerk, he met his future wife, then a civil service secretary. They are childless, but his affection for children is deep; when he heard of the death of 18-month-old Angela Gallagher, hit by a sniper...
...continue his campaign to dispel the growing notion, especially evident on college campuses, that science is intrinsically evil. "What is ironic," he says, "is that the very things the young people want to change can best be clone through their understanding and mastering of technology, of making technology their servant...