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...Putney-type graduate may often surround himself with high school friends (ideally, with a high school girl-friend), go back frequently, and with the slighest excuse, to his old school, and return to Harvard despondent, recalling his pleasant visit, the warmth of his welcome (he forgets the role his present Harvard status plays here) and looking forward to his next trip. He dresses quite as he did for the hayride back then...
JUDY: Consider Helene, portrayed at least with warmth and flexibility by Delphine Seyrig. Unlike Emmanuelle Riva--the Woman in Hiroshima, Jake--Miss Seyrig speaks not only to the audience but to the other characters on the screen as well. Our viewpoint never manages to penetrate the inscrutable consciousness...
...indulgence may mean death." Yet he remained ever and exquisitely aware of the ambiguities of even the best-intentioned human behavior and never became self-righteous about his own projects: "The 'great' commitment all too easily obscures the 'little' one. But without the humility and warmth which you have to develop in your relations to the few with whom you are personally involved, you will never be able to do anything for the many." One entry explains his approach to international conflicts: "Jesus sat at meat with publicans and sinners: he consorted with harlots...
...year ago, it has sold the exceptional total of 110,000 copies, and has won the highbrow Renaudot Prize. It has intense visual strength and might easily be transcribed into a New Wave movie by some current master of the jolting, hand-held camera. Yet it lacks human warmth, and ends as another pale variation of the modish French anti-novel-truly a tale of tedium...
Indeed, Johnson's obvious vanity about gaining a national consensus and his reluctance to risk engagement with Goldwater in a "great debate" of conflicting philosophies seems to give credence to the belief that he merely wants the warmth of national approval and won't try to convert it into energetic legislation...