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VIETNAMIZATION. President Nixon recently quoted Abrams as saying that, in Laos, ARVN has proved it can "hack it." It is true that battles like last week's bloody struggles at Fire Base Lolo and Landing Zone Brown show that South Vietnamese troops can summon considerable courage, even when outnumbered 3 to 1 or more. Yet it is also clear that the key to ARVN survival in Laos has been the lavish use of U.S. airpower. For their part, senior South Vietnamese officers say that Laos has exposed some leadership problems even in crack ARVN units, and the lesson, they...
While he relishes his celebrity status, Barnes worries about this degree of power. To mitigate it, he customarily bends over backward to find something to praise even when the show is arrant flapdoodle. This time he could not summon up anything good to say about the play; nor did he have a pleasant word for Hailey's previous work, Who's Happy Now?, a hilarious Oedipal farce (TIME, Nov. 28, 1969). The reason may lie in the nature of comedy, which is the most indigenous of dramatic forms. Barnes was born and reared in England, and while...
...Hoichi, the ballad singer, living seven hundred years after the battle. He is a blind, self-effacing young man, the only character in the four films who is sufficiently developed to completely win our sympathies. Hoichi is caught between allegiance to the priest he serves and the spirits who summon him to sing each night. Kobayashi permits here the introduction of all manner of implied themes-the autonomy of art, tensions between organized religion and spirituality, illusion us, reality and so on-but these are all carefully subordinated to the thoroughly human struggle in Hoichi. Kobayashi seeks not an intellectual...
...which celebrate the supreme bad taste of the '20s, especially in women's dress. But nostalgia is not quite the appropriate word for the Vincent Youmans score, which has shown enduring vitality. Merely to mention the titles Tea for Two or / Want to Be Happy is to summon up the transporting glow that occasionally makes this show enchantment...
...have never met anyone better able to stand punishment than the Germans," Sajer writes. Obviously he believes that Germans never took more punishment than in the Russian campaign. His self defined mission: "To reanimate with all the intensity I can summon those distant cries from the slaughterhouse...