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...last three years? Keng does not reply. The nonresponse may confirm that there has been a fierce debate and struggle between those in the military who would push to produce a modern technical army with nuclear weapons and those who would follow the wisdom of Chairman Mao and retain a people's army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Excursions in Mao's China | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

ILLUSIONS ARE as central to the works of Tennessee Williams as they are to the life of Blanche DuBois, but there is nothing illusory about the appeal of A Streetcar Named Desire and its faded heroine. Only a very few pieces of American theater retain their power and excellence as does Streetcar, now nearly twenty-five years after its premiere, and it is, moreover, the rarity--a vehicle for actors which actually goes somewhere, propelled not by the air of its histrionics but the pull of its emotion. All of which makes especially regrettable the collision between the play Streetcar...

Author: By William W. Clinkenbeard, | Title: A Streetcar Named Desire | 2/19/1972 | See Source »

Nixon's ban on further infiltration is a disguised demand that Hanoi close down the Ho Chi Minh trail. Since Hanoi's troops and their allies would be fully cut off from their lines of supply, the U.S. supported governments--who would presumably retain their supplies of U.S. military aid--would find themselves at a distinct military advantage...

Author: By Jim Blum, | Title: An End to a Beginning? | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...Huskies will be among the six teams the Crimson will have to beat to retain the championship. Also running are Brandeis, Tufts, MIT, Boston College and Boston University...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Thinclads Face Big Fight in GBC's Friday | 2/2/1972 | See Source »

...about grinding it. Kael has a perversely radical culture-consciousness, loving most those films which, rooted to a trashy crowd-pleasing base, manage to transcend it. Simon is a classicist, and treats film with the same stern regard as theater; his occasional fault is literary pretension. Hatch and Kauffmann retain the social concern of the more serious '50's liberals, while Sarris's devotion to the Great God Cinema is at least more passionate and entertaining than that of his film-school acolytes...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Saints and Sycophants | 1/18/1972 | See Source »

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