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...fight to control inflation [Aug. 16], you have it all backward! Teacher organizations and other public-servant groups have only begun to strike and bargain effectively within the past decade. Industrial labor unions have been powerful for much longer. So when workers in private industry win substantial raises, civil servants "quite naturally feel an urge to match them." Not vice versa...
Francis Bator, professor of political economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, agreed: "I happen to think that Bill Bundy will be a first-rate editor. But more important, I think an issue of high principle is involved. An honorable public servant has been charged with being a war criminal. That charge is grotesque. It reflects a tawdry moralizing approach to foreign policy that is deeply dangerous. Backing away from a decision in the face of such a charge would have been a disaster for the council...
...they must carry twice around the playing field before depositing it at the feet of their king. In the unrestrained fury of the competition Uraz breaks a leg and loses the buzkashi. Partly as penance and partly to regain some measure of self-respect, he sets out with his servant deliberately choosing a nearly impassable mountain route to return home...
Fake Dialogue. Until now the film has been a vigorous and accomplished adventure. But during the journey, allegorical trappings descend like a shroud, suffocating much of the movie's energy and momentum. Uraz and the servant meet an outcast woman named Zereh (Leigh Taylor-Young), who promptly turns the men against each other. She even tries to get the servant to murder Uraz so that they may steal his fine white horse. Delirious with pain from his broken leg, Uraz is beleaguered by the elements, his traveling companions, and his own sense of shame. He retaliates by tempting Zereh...
...years from The Sleeping Tiger (1954) to Eva (1962). They are preoccupied with thwarted dreams and baroque psychopathy, with characters afflicted by spiritual wounds that will not heal. Although Losey had begun to work under his own name by 1957, it was not until the release of The Servant in 1963 that he became a film maker of international reputation. Losey and Pinter planned to do The Go-Between right after The Servant, but problems with the film rights and then with financing forced postponement. "I was broke," Losey recalls, "and there was Figures in a Landscape, a nice...