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Erwin D. Canham, Editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and Kenneth N. Waltz, Visiting Lecturer on Government from Swarthmore, felt that the smaller nations will play a relatively small part in world politics. Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, predicted, however, that their role will be a crucial...
Agreeing with Canham, Waltz pointed out that "the western and eastern alliances are breaking up, but the United States and the Soviet Union are so powerful that they will maintain the balance of power even without the support of the small countries." He also said that the smaller nations will only be able to act as advisers to the two larger ones...
...composite of tricks. It is skillfully acted, particularly by Finney. Appearing in nearly every scene, he laughs and romps with engaging abandon, setting the tone for everyone else in the film. Finney acts with every fiber of his face, every muscle of his body: viewers who have watched him waltz and stumble into the marshes to get a flower for sophie are not likely to forget his performance...
...from Kind Hearts and Coronets to Ben-Hur, in which he won an Oscar as the mock-sinister Sheik Ilderim, whose fine white horses won the chariot race. He first earned wide recognition on the West End stage as the leering General St. Pé in Anouilh's Waltz of the Toreadors, and on Broadway as Thomas Wolfe's father in Look Homeward, Angel. Last year, doing Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle in London, he nearly deprived the world of his future services when, during the hanging scene, he slipped off the box he was standing...
...idly while two Negroes in uniform are beaten up by drawling American soldiers enjoying a "coon hunt." To complete a $50 wager, a couple of the boys gun down a puppy. There are looting episodes too. But when Foreman's lads grow misty-eyed over a music box waltz, they prove they are vandals with heart...