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...PEACE. Though it is never easy to shrink an oak back to an acorn, Phoenix Theater's production of the mammoth Tolstoy classic is surprisingly dramatic. In this play, and in an alternate offering, Man and Superman, individual performances are submerged in beautiful ensemble playing...
...soon as we enable all of our citizens to perform skills needed in our mechanized economy, unemployment will shrink and the national intellect will grow. "Machines provide jobs for men if there are men capable of filling them." The great theme of the next few decades, and of The New Improved American, is education. The route to Paradise passes through the schools...
...film's most striking symbols are the ever-present ships-monsters that plow along polluted waterways and shrink everything to insignificance: men, trees, even a listless orgy in a fisherman's hut. Color dominates another scene in which Harris withdraws moment by moment from a meeting with his men, motivated by associations with a touch of blue paint on the wall...
...half of the title represents the time allotted to a forward looking Nazi shrink (Rod Taylor) for extracting Allied invasion plans from an American intelligence officer (James Garner). His plot: drug Garner, then convince him (with a most elaborate hoax set) that he has had amnesia for six years, is in the tender loving hands of victorious Americans, and can only regain his memory through a "therapy" which consists of telling everything he can remember--i.e. the details of D-Day strategy. If this new-fangled ploy founders, Garner gets turned over to the pudgy S.S. man waiting...
...hours elapse, we learn that the shrink is a fine fellow after all and, of course, that the difference between good Nazis and bad ones is simply that the former were raised in the USA until the age of sixteen and speak fluent English with no trace of an accent. We also learn that a pretty young nurse who has been tortured at Aunchwitz and is offered romance with a clashing Yankee, will have little loyalty to Hitler's cause...