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And even when Coutard falls toward sentiment, when he lingers too long over Xuan crying or exploits an especial cuteness in Hung's expression, it is not so much an indulgence as a tactic. He is playing on sentiment only as a way of striking through the numbness of Western...
President Nguyen Van Thieu saw it as "a very good achievement of our people and our nation." The results of South Viet Nam's one-man election were very good indeed-in fact, too good. According to the government, fully 87.7% of the 7.4 million qualified voters went to...
It was left to the U.N.'s most mellifluous spokesman to lift the tone of the conversation. Israel's Abba Eban suggested that he and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad meet on the stalemated Suez Canal issue. Such a confrontation is not likely, but the offer gave Eban...
From the viewpoint of hagiography, the martyr is the ultimate Christian hero, the most noble of saints. Sociology, with a cooler eye, sees him as something else: a special kind of social deviant. As Sociologist Robert K. Merton points out, the "historically significant nonconformist," his own definition of martyr, often...
The program says that Earthlight is "an expression of human radiance" meant to invoke "the forces that push upward out of the earth toward the light." Promises of this sort usually guarantee an uninspiring evening, but for once the religious tone is somewhat justified. Earthlight is meant more as a...