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THERE are plenty of committees in Washington these days, but virtually no talk of resignations. Since any number of Cabinet members and lesser officials are unhappy with President Nixon's policies, one would assume that a few of them are ready to quit amid ringing pronouncements: "I am sorry that I have only one job to give for my country." But no such moves−at least...
...swing in the last six general elections, however, was only 3.1%, and there are doubts that Heath can retrieve a victory. As Wilson said jestingly in the House of Commons a few weeks ago, "However tired people may be of me, I think most will regard me as the lesser of two evils...
Gardner is a thoughtful, honorable leader who knows−and says−that peopie must hope in order to act. But his exhortations now have a little of the artificiality of cheerleading. They seem to have been designed for earlier and lesser crises. "Hope is out of style," he writes in rueful recognition of the new American climate...
...Leibman is a manic delight in the key role, twitching mutely when in despair, brassily egomaniacal in victory, and forever sniffing the theatrical climate like a raunchy Shubert Alley cat. The rest of the cast play lesser roles with no less finesse, and pace-setting Director Harold Stone leaves no comic corner unturned...
...took the final U.S. entry, M.A.S.H., to clear away the nasty aftertaste of commercialized commitment. Oddly enough, this was the one protest film based on the uses of bad taste-an insanely funny movie expressing the moral disproportion between war and lesser evils by showing the reality of both. As Director Robert Altman said: "Politics? I'm more concerned with behavior, with the insanity of order. This whole syndrome-the new films, and acting things out in protest-this may be a cry for revolution, yet through these media a bloodless...