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Americans for some years have been preoccupied with disasters of man's own making: Viet Nam and Watergate, pollution and terrorism. That preoccupation could produce a form of hubris-the idea that men, often enough Americans, so command the planet that they must be to blame when events collapse into tragedy. Viewed from this perspective, disaster must always be attended by accusation and guilt...
...like an untested drug on a moribund patient, it seemed no worse than the alternative. The election was another Italian standoff. The Christian Democrats, with 39% of the vote, did not emerge with sufficient strength to govern alone; the Communists, with 34%, fell short of what they needed to command a formal role in the government. The Christian Democrats were unwilling to share power formally with the Communists. They were also on warning not to by Western allies, who at an economic summit in Puerto Rico in June agreed to withhold aid to Italy if Communists entered the government. Scratching...
...agencies. Andreotti can accept most of the Communist proposals, although Zaccagnini warned Christian Democratic leaders last week "to avoid the danger that the parliamentary vote will constitute in fact that majority which we excluded on a political plane." Bluntly, that meant they had to watch against the Communists grabbing command of the lawmaking process and slipping into the government via the parliamentary back door, a danger that Washington observers pessimistically considered very real...
...conservative local constituency very well-he staged an undistinguished Ring cycle of his own in 1971-but for the big five-week-long birthday he went out to hire men who would shake things up the way they must be shaken periodically if an opera house is to command international attention...
...mature, or post-spaghetti, formulation is a true reflection of his sensibility. The flat, quiet voice, the understated grace of his movements, the sweet almost boyish manner, contrasting so curiously with the violent deeds he performs, have a remarkable way of gaining sympathetic interest not so much through command as through insinuation. In a western, where spacious landscapes and historical distance seem to soften the impact of his brutal methods of problem solving, Eastwood is not simply a symbol of the modern taste for random and gratuitous bloodletting in films. Rather, he reminds us of a traditional American style...