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...considering the occupation largely from the viewpoint of an isolated individual. Black Thursday, like Lacombe Lucien, obscures the need to explain collaboration and resistance in wider terms, to determine not only why one individual made a specific moral choice, but rather why a whole nation allowed the deportation to occur. Consequently, both these films fail to cope with the fundamental issues involved in the occupation and so offer inadequate explanations of even individual motivations. In this sense, the Sorrow and the Pity, with its comparative scope and superior analytic technique, is a more penetrating investigation of collaboration than either...
...United States. But the choices still seem to me to have been very hard ones. How much is it worth to give a nation a chance? Because we lost we shouldn't beat our breast. It was a close choice with moral factors on both sides. On a wider view, buying time for the nations of Southeast Asia to stabilize their governments was the major reason for our actions. Thus there is faint consolation in the fact that such countries as Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia are not in all that bad shape...
...culmination of a deliberate policy of recalcitrance towards DISC. If Bok had met and talked with the students--instead of walking out and avoiding the kind of crisis situation he is supposed to handle to well--he probably could have avoided the ensuing tension and the now even wider gap between DISC and the administration and the advisory board. When it takes a demonstration for Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, to say that he will tell Bok his "personal impression" is that the students' demand to meet with Bok is a "sincere one," then clearly something...
...passions he couldn't successfully reproduce on paper. Higgins knows how good his dialogue can sound, at its best; he knows too well, I think, because his skill at recording his special type of dialogue in his peculiar tones hinders his ambition to be a novelist of wider talents. The German poet Rilke warned one young poet that "he must always remain unconscious, unsuspecting of his best virtues, if he would not rob them of their ingenuousness and untouchedness!" Higgins seems to be filching his greatest talent...
...book suffers from one major problem of translation--not of the text itself, but of the wider context of the story. Few readers here will be able to fit this tale into any familiar setting--Norway is just too far away, as is the rural life Anna depicts...