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...history. It is a task for which modern Western man, and particularly the American, is ill prepared. The U.S., as the most powerful nation in the world, has never systematically thought out the legitimate uses and the inevitable limitations of power. The answer cannot lie either in mere swagger or in mere compassion. The age-old problem of reconciling love and justice is cogently analyzed by German Catholic Theologian Karl Rahner, who feels that "it is impossible to make our existence a paroxysm of nonviolence." The Christian "should always first opt for the path of love; yet as long...
Babe's cast sustains this intensity except where Sartre's shoddy dramatization makes it impossible. Deitch as the cynical, frankly self-centered, intellectual Henri is magnificent. His swagger is far more powerful as potential than as actuality. A painfully trapped man, he smashes into walls and writhes futilely when tied to a chair of torture...
...years ago under Saud, radios were barely tolerated. Today almost every family has one, and last year Feisal even introduced television-though a heavily edited version in which Dodge City cowpokes swagger up to the bar and demand "a shot of lemon squash." Even the land's harsh justice is being relaxed-in a quiet Saudi way. Rather than being beheaded, murderers are simply shot nowadays. Thieves still may lose a hand; but it is first pumped with painkillers, the wrist is wrenched from the socket to avoid any broken bones, and the hand is amputated with sterilized instruments...
Here's where the timing comes in. With the exception of Charles Braun as Doctor and Leonard Sussman as Priest, the actors in this show do not develop regular enough patterns of expression and reaction. They talk with the same voices and swagger or strut the same way, but the rhythm of their speech, the length of time they take to respond aren't consistent. They don't, as they might, provide sure indications of the temperaments of the characters...
Doing the Mekes. Producer of the tattoo* is retired Brigadier Alasdair MacLean of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, who still wears his tartan trews and Glengarry cap, clings to his silver-topped swagger stick ("I'm sort of superstitious about the damned thing"). As reinforcements for his North American campaign, MacLean has added 18 feather-footed British Columbia Highland Lassies (all daughters of Canadian servicemen) and for Manhattan, 57 Fiji islanders, representing more than one-third of the crown colony's present army. Mostly muscular six-footers as tall as their names (like Lance Corporal...