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CORRESPONDENCE Puerile Equitableness I just finished reading a film review in your December issue and feel as if I stumbled over a stone on a brightly lit road. How the stone got there is a matter...
...I can't say that an irate letter of this kind at all surprises me, but I think it should have been sufficiently clear in my review that Julia is concerned with matters other than politics—matters just as important as what Mr...
...Nothing physical, but one who reports on her and her oeuvres must notice and mention this perfume, unless he is a fellow-radicliberal or an olfactory invalid...
...Tyrmand's much flaunted sense of smell does not fill that vacuum in any way...
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...To my mind, allowing the views of those one most dislikes to determine one's own opinion is a slap in the face to responsible thinking...
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...His comments about Vanessa Redgrave are equally off-target...
...Everitt with the help of the adjectives important, poignant, accomplished and expressions like moving story and mature compassion...
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...Tyrmand's nostrils flare wildly in indignation...
...But life is cruel, does not let us dismiss it so easily, and bemuddles pure harmonies with impertinent questions...
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...In his letter, other than quoting my adjectives out of context, he never specifically addresses himself to the way I have assessed the particulars of Julia, so I have to assume that he has not seen the film...
...Without a foul smell detector, he slips from criticism down to an "I-sure-like-it" opinion...
...She was honored with the same words by the Stalinist scum during her reveling in Moscow in theforties...
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...While apparently content to sniff about, he seems to find me at fault for relying on my senses of hearing and seeing when considering an audio-visual medium...
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...Such a question may smack of socialist realism, but I doubt that The American Spectator believes that Sholokhov, who wrote a commanding epic, should not be held accountable for underwriting Stalin's crimes...
...Not long ago, Lord & Taylor, a Manhattan department store, presented Ms...
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...I don't say this as an unfair literal summation of his argument, but as a way of pointing out what I consider to be an inappropriate and muddled criterion for judgment...
...Aside from the moral issue he makes out of whether to-shop-or-not-to-shop at Lord & Taylor, Mr...
...Hellman was praised by Stalinists in the forties...
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...Hellman exudes, in life and work, a special odor of liberal rottenness at its worst and stalest...
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...Judging from his letter, though, this is just the sort of thing that would make Mr...
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...Obviously art does not exist in a vacuum, but Mr...
...If I were to deny that I admired Martin Eden because of this I would be dishonest, if not downright inane...
...Tyrmand's most telling remark against Lillian Hellman, and presumably Julia, is that Ms...
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...Jane Fonda, a former broadcaster from Hanoi, and Ms...
...Brooks, Lord & Taylor's chairman, thanked Ms...
...Hellman for her "unshakable faith in the rights of human beings and for her unwavering crusade for personal dignity...
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...Everitt is obviously a believer in the school of immanent criticism, that is in the full autonomy of a work of art, which should remain detached from ugly realities...
...Tyrmand is more opposed to the PLO than I am, but I can't see how it's necessary to review an actress' political life in order to judge her performance on the screen...
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...Tyrmand's brand of knee-jerk reaction which, I concede, is not olfactorily invalid, but is certainly mentally crippled...
...The fact is, however, that a gentleman by the name of David Everitt enriched The American Spectator with a report written with a proud, though puerile, equitableness...
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...Tyrmand's point of view is just as absurd to me as the stance of liberals who refuse to see movies that star John Wayne...
...Even a reporter deeply awed by the hard-sell humanitarianism and "engaging performances" of Julia must ask the question: What does this slick stylishness and artsy glitter serve...
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Vol. 11 • February 1978 • No. 4
