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...first James still represents the official stereotype. Here is the high priest of art who refined himself right out of life, the superfastidious intellect whom Theodore Roosevelt called an "effete" and "miserable little snob," the too-exquisite stylist whom H.G. Wells described as a "leviathan retrieving pebbles." Edel's formidable accomplishment has been to unveil the second James in all his surprising robustness and to give this figure equal space on the wall...
...producing solid characterizations, visuals be damned. But there is also something enervating about the film, just as sure as there is a greenish-gray pall which dominates its atmosphere. It's as if Williams finds his own sense of craftsmanship dispiriting, and thus sets out to follow his intellect rather than be led by real inspiration...
...Nixon announcement once again dramatized the President's remarkable reliance on the diverse talents, energy and intellect of the brilliant, German-born former Harvard academic who is variously referred to by his governmental colleagues as "Henry the K," "Henry the Kiss," "Herr Doktor" and "the Metternich from Yonkers." Kissinger, 48, dominates U.S. foreign policy far more than any White House aide in recent memory, playing a role unequaled since John Foster Dulles ran a virtually one-man State Department for Dwight Eisenhower?and Dulles was, in fact, the Secretary of State. Kissinger has seized total control of the White House...
...orderly Kissinger intellect has brought a new neatness to the formulation of U.S. foreign policy. On such matters as relations with the U.S.S.R., he says: "We used to spend half our time negotiating among ourselves, a quarter of the time with our allies and only a fourth with the Russians." The Kissinger apparatus is designed to short-circuit interdepartmental disputes well before they reach the President. "The role of the President is not to ratify the compromises of the bureaucracy," Kissinger insists. He is superb at squeezing clear-cut choices out of the departments to present to the President?...
...History Judge represents a subtle and sophisticated endeavor by a man of exceptional intellect and high principles to tell the whole truth about a Communist disaster without throwing into doubt the Communist program and philosophy. He fails on the second count. Those chapters that reconstruct what happened under Stalin seem measured and secure as a historical record. But in the more theoretical sections, where he attempts to explain how a Communist revolution could give way to wholesale slaughter of a citizenry by its government, Medvedev is in difficulty. While asserting that Stalin's rise to power was not inevitable...