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Much of the movie's strength comes from the script by Tracy Keenan Wynn (Keenan's son, Ed's grandson). Miss Jane is never merely a symbol or a stereotype. Whether responding shyly to the kindness of a Union soldier, umpiring a baseball game or teasing her earnest young interviewer, she emerges as a human being full of surprising quirks and depths. John Korty, a director whose feature films (Funnyman, riverrun) have lacked emotional fire, here employs his unobtrusive and objective camera to excellent effect. Violence is seen as a constant element rather than a shocking intrusion...
Neither side was willing to give in on these links. In Cairo, reported TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, Egyptians were openly impatient at the slow pace of negotiations. Among other consequences, the lack of progress is holding up a massive postwar restructuring of the Egyptian economy, which Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has been planning at Aswan. To carry out this economic retooling and take over the Premier's job that he has also held since last March, Sadat is expected to choose Deputy Premier Abdel Aziz Hegazi, 51, a respected former business professor who already supervises the nation...
...Much has changed in Cairo in 29 years," notes Wynn, "but there is still a sense of permanence about the Egypt of awe-inspiring antiquities, of graceful feluccas with their arched sails on the Nile, and the finest kabob and sharpest sense of humor in the world...
...Some of Wynn's early acquaintances are now Arab leaders: Wynn met Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia, in 1946 when, as a 43-year-old exile in Cairo, Bourguiba brought a piece of anti-French propaganda to be published in a magazine Wynn was helping edit. He first met Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1953, when Sadat was editor-in-chief of the government-owned newspaper Al Gumhurriya...
...Many times since 1945," Wynn says, "I have seen the tension between the Egypt of heroism and great exploits- which existed under Nasser- and the Egypt that struggles for its daily existence. Under Sadat, one gets the impression that the emphasis is on the very practical demands of survival and more bread for the people. This evolution is due in part to the difference in style of the two men, but it results primarily from the obvious needs of Egypt today...