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...search of the picturesque, the strange and the quaint, and finding it, they would entirely ignore the poverty and disease with which it struggled. Miss Westman, however unwittingly on her part, offers justification to those who would have the city and its universities drive out the poor and transient in hopeless attempts to return to simpler, pleasanter times. Or worse, she suggests such problems do not even exist, thus making our irresponsibility in such matters all the easier...
...landscape of New York State Democratic politics is like a long-contested battlefield, littered with the bones of fallen warriors, marked with monuments to victorious but transient knights, occupied in places by warring if ostensibly fraternal tribes. Leading Democrats themselves have described the factions of the state party as "feudal baronies," cannibalistic and almost nonexistent as an organized force. One leader on the party's left says simply: "It's a legal fiction." The very real cast of characters includes organization conservatives and liberals, anti-organization insurgents and reformers, some in and some outside the organization entirely...
That note of uncertainty just about sums up the political lessons of the past years at Harvard. Student political action-whether radical or more moderate-has been largely unsuccessful in achieving substantive goals like pressing the war to an end. Victories have been transient, and the groups which won them have often disappeared within a few months, or turned to bickering with their political rivals. Students as political workers have had little staying power; increasing it, if that can be done, will probably be one of the main preoccupations of activists of all shades in the months and years...
Andreas Winkleman (Max von Sydow) is an inhabitant of that vital Bergmanian metaphor, an isle off the Swedish coast. Bearded, racked, his Christlike face appears to be a skull in rented skin. Indeed, his humanity is as transient as his lust. Andreas' only "friend" is Elis (Erland Josephson), a corrupt architect who shrewdly offers Andreas his money and haplessly lends him his frigid wife Eva (Bibi Andersson). She proves but a temporary distraction...
...retaking of Sam Thong raised the morale of Prince Souvanna Phouma's government. But at week's end, after a transient lull, the Communists launched a new rocket and mortar attack on Sam Thong, advancing to within 200 yards of the base's airstrip. There was also ominous evidence of continued Communist buildups around Vang Pao's home base just 20 miles to the south...