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DUNLOP IS HONESTLY concerned that exorbitant Union demands would wreak havoc on a Faculty budget that has only this year edged back into the black. On a less statesman-like level, he is undoubtedly also fearful that the Union would erode his strength in dealing with his Faculty constituency. But his refusal to publicly recognize the Union and its legitimate concerns has seemingly gained him nothing and helped to insure that it will be around to plague him for some time to come...
...Napoleon's dramatic escape from exile on Elba. Moreover, if Perón had planned to present himself as the instant solution to the troubles of Argentina and then ride off into the sunset like a gaucho De Gaulle with his charisma and place in history as a statesman intact, the scene was not quite right. Perón had, in fact, been forced to return to Argentina by the adroit maneuvering of Argentina's current President and military strongman, Alejandro Lanusse...
...Bonanza, an NBC western whose beginnings date back almost to TV's neolithic age-1959. In 13½ years TV viewers have watched Michael Landon, the baby-faced younger brother on the Ponderosa, grow a little jowly, and Lome Greene turn into an oats-and-saddle elder statesman. The series was as popular outside the U.S.: by last count, it was being seen in some 90 countries. The simple message that good always triumphs over bad is just as clear in Farsi as in English...
...many ways true to the nature of Churchill's self-examination in all his writing, if not exactly true to the man himself. Churchill showed very little interest in the complexities of his own psychology. His writings about himself all conform to the Classics Illustrated school of statesman autobiography, that "I am a part of all that I have met" syndrome whereby the man of action records no inner feelings which do not readily follow the logic of the events in which he is partaking. In accordance with this and with the Hollywood approach to everything in general. Foreman...
Granted, the film was made to be enjoyable junk, but this reviewer wishes to enter a plea that for once the movie industry make a film biography of a statesman that treats its subject like a human being. The youths of ambitious men like Churchill. Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt were often messy affairs, full of manias and self-conflict, and why not treat them as such? Churchill, for instance, never had the smooth self-conception this film imputes to him. In his journals, Churchill's physician, Lord Moran, quotes a conversation with the dying crony Brendan Bracken...