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Despite his clear belief that revolutionary movements are changing the shape of world politics. Landau mouths the old cliches out "bipolar world" Regarding developments since the nineteenth century, he writes uncategorically. Where multipolarity existed before, bipolarity between the Soviet Union and the United States is the central feature of current international relations." Landau is similarly two-faced in his distinctions between Kennedy and Nixon foreign policy. In a cogent passage, he recalls the "chauvinism" of the Kennedy Administration which pledged "it would fight anywhere and at any time to achieve its goals." The Nixon Administration is less idealistic: it will...
...final phase of nineteenth-century literature, the game turns into a complex pattern of tag or "mother-may-I". Henry James's American girls are seduced not by men, but by surfaces, by "their failure to look deep enough into things." And the men perceiving full well the awful depths, sense a mysterious force in women that threatens to undercut their own power. Their outright acts of betrayal and cruelty are breathless attempts to remain one step ahead of destruction...
...they think it will do?" she asks, understandably, from her position as successful and professionally independent woman. There were those who cringed, however, at an absent-minded answer she gave to the effect that there are "only one or two women writers one thinks of when looking at the nineteenth century." (Maybe some day the pamphlet will come floating through the mail giving the statistics on the high percentage of female writers in the dark ages of Victoriana, although most of them were not the bearers of the "high art" with which Hardwick was chiefly concerned...
Burn. Gillo Pontecorso of Battle of Algiers fame directed this Marxist-Fanonian Parable of revolution on a Portuguese-colonized island in the Caribbean in the mid nineteenth century. The story cluntsily parallels Vietnam, the Phillipines, et al., but Marlon Brando gives a superb performance as a British mercenary agent provocateur, and the direction is sensuously beautiful. With Vlva Zapsta. Elia Kazan's exciting but absurd film of a John Steinbeck script, full of take feeling for the Mexican little guy. Still, there's a young, dynamic Brando as Emiliano, and Anthony Quinn as his brother. ORSON WELLES CINEMA ONE. Call...
Looking like a nineteenth century candy sampler resting on a mammoth paper doily, the printed scrim that greets the Loeb audience is engagingly nostalgic. Unfortunately, the production of The Matchmaker that unfolds behind it is as overly sweet as the candy one would expect to find...