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...chubby and cute Vietnamese children who play the leads hardly look as if they had been savaged by the war. Yet, if Coutard has been rather sloppy about realism, he is scrupulous in avoiding propaganda. He refuses to take sides. Hung overhears an American defending his country's participation, and later, when he is taken to a political meeting, listens to a member of the N.L.F. explain its ideology. Both speakers are persuasive, and both promise victory. For Coutard, obviously, politics pale beside a single human imperative. In Vietnamese, hoa-binh means "peace." · Jay Cocks
...usual in an Ibsen scene, opera glasses are not needed to recognize the symbolism. Tiny, armored, venomous, Ibsen was an ailing spirit whose dramas stung the 19th century's conscience and gave European theater a new seriousness. After launching into poetic tragedy (Brand, Peer Gynt), Ibsen imported social realism from the novel and invented modern prose drama (A Doll's House, Ghosts). Then he passed on to the great pagan passion plays of his old age (The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, Little Eyolf...
...full-length, three-act pieces that use the muscularly bejeweled Prokofiev score. Tudor's 50-minute ballet is based on several wetly romantic pieces by English Composer Frederick Delius. Where Prokofiev pants, Delius sighs; where the Russian stomps, the Briton floats. Tudor, a pioneer in bringing psychological realism to ballet, matches the soft, antique mood of the score. The gemlike production looks like a Botticelli painting in motion...
...clearer to Nixon officials, and fears of a U.S. "defeat" still unduly haunt the White House. The exaggerated claims of success in Laos and Cambodia carry hints of continuing attempts at deception. But Nixon is of course disengaging, however slowly, and that is in itself proof of a new realism...
Even as Solzhenitsyn's latest book appeared in the West, another Russian writer, imprisoned for publishing articles and stories abroad (On Socialist Realism, The Trial Begins), was released from a Soviet labor camp. In late 1966, Andrei Sinyavsky, now 46, was sentenced to seven years at hard labor for "anti-Soviet slander," while Fellow Writer Yuli Daniel was given five years on the same charge. Daniel was released last year after serving his full sentence, but Sinyavsky was set free 20 months early for good behavior. Even so, he was banned for two more years from returning to Moscow...