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Orson Welles, who wrote and directed the first film version of Kafka's masterpiece, has wisely declined to decide. He accepts every possible interpretation as a limb of the author's allegorical monster, as a circle of the Hell in whose image he imagined man is made. Into this pit, his cameras rolling like the eyes of Lucifer, Welles plunges with tartarean energy; and if he cannot quite get to the bottom of it all he nevertheless comes up with a film of infernal brilliance, perhaps the most exciting picture he has made since The Magnificent Ambersons...
...things considered, it is gay enough. At Budapest's Press Ball last week, young men in stovepipe trousers and girls in daringly décolleté dresses performed a writhing twist that onlookers pointed to with a touch of pride as their own "dirty twist." For the monster masked balls that punctuate the season, probably 100,000 costumes will be rented. At some events the men sport tuxedos rented for 120 forints (the average Hungarian earns 1,600 forints a month, or $70 at tourist exchange rates), and the ladies wear old remodeled party dresses...
...long as America resists that temptation, there is hope for Western unity. America's liberal treatment of Western Europe has accomplished something that no deliberate effort could have achieved--the realization by the NATO countries that they have more to fear from the other monster than from this...
...former colonial territories and the turning inward of Europe have both taken place independently of the Cold War. Indeed, these two phenomena are more closely related to each other than to the rivalry between the two continent-states. Eastern Europe has been swallowed and digested by the monster in the East. But the monster in the West has allowed the Western Europeans to determine their own destiny, and they have done so by joining together to save what is left of Europe from complete disappearance. So far, the United States has resisted the temptation to accord to Western Europe...
...thought leads us to a surprising parallel between neutralism and Gaullism, though we have argued above (February 16) that they are very different. Half of the Social-Democratic International thinks that since the Cold War is not their quarrel, they should not provide shock troops for the Western monster. The Gaullists reason that the Cold War is not their quarrel, but that they should be permitted to make it so. Gaullists therefore accept the American contention that Russia is a threat which unites Western Europe to America, but they accept it on the condition that a real difference exists between...