Eminentoes
Stillman, J. Whitney
Millicent H. Fenwick: Reality in Our Time ("The Continuing Crisis" has not been discontinued! It will return next issue, and in the meantime we introduce a delectable new column devoted to honoring...
...Admittedly, there have been some causes for sadness in Cambodia...
...The young lovers are adorable, the fairy godmother's a hoot, and the colors are enchanting...
...It is difficult to determine the meaning of statements like Eidelberg's remark that "[t]he measure of the individual is the intensity of his relevance for his society," and to recognize in them an improvement over, say, Aristotle's political science...
...In fact, this vet social concern played an important role i her decision to advocate an end to Ind( china aid...
...its merchant fleet...
...Fenwick would at least bring heart to the State Department...
...As Mrs...
...It is possible that Illinois an the Midwestern states would pass to fo eign control, but that might ultimately l for the best...
...The so-called bloodbath, much discussed by right-wingers in this country, never materialized...
...Events in developing cou tries thousands of miles away, which t, years ago would have been of only pay ing interest to us, today may mean t. difference between prosperity and ha times...
...In 1947 more than a thousand of the country's 1,332 surviving priests were sent to Russia, where apparently it was felt they could be of greater use...
...St is an educated consumer...
...Eidelberg's scattered account of this synthesis is too hazy to constitute a demonstration that it is either necessary or possible...
...In November 1974, the New York Times editorially endorsed Mrs...
...Lots of dramatic confron tions, discourses on "honor" and "dut and other catchy concepts...
...Not a sequel to treasure...
...Only a necrophiliac could get nourishment from this deadening flop...
...However, there is no reason American air power couldn't be mobilized over the city to drop leaflets explaining the advantages of the American way of life...
...Second, aid to our allies—when they are losing—can only prolong the suffering...
...but Eidelberg never works out his own doctrine of "nonfinalistic teleology" sufficiently to show that it represents a superior or even a meaningful alternative...
...The Indochinese war has taught Americans many lessons...
...On the night of June 14, 1941, '0,455 members of the Lithuanian inteligentsia (i.e...
...Within that year eighty thousand Lithuanians managed to reach the West...
...Fenwick's own formal education ended at finishing school...
...Fenwick declared: "We America have always been a generous people...
...One of the architects of the orderly transfer of power in Indochina was Mrs...
...Such a consensus is beginning to emerge, particularly in regard to Chicago...
...There's a neat chase, and the chief villain may have survived for a third installment...
...Russia oc:upied Lithuania on June 15, 1940, conlucted rigged elections in July, and the text month incorporated it into the Soviet Jnion...
...It is important that these and other lessons the war taught are remembered in the future...
...Fenwick in March: "The obvious hope is Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and he recently sent a cable to the Senate majority leader, Mike Mansfield, offering friendly relations with the United States and amnesty to all Cambodians except Marshal Lon Nol and his closest advisers...
...In July 1944, power was transferred back to the Soviet Union, whose army slaughtered much of the native population, this time without keeping a count...
...Paris never looked so chic, nor opportunism so casual...
...Hearts and Minds: The Oscar-winning documentary by Bert Schneider and Peter Davis, glorifying the Communist side in Vietnam and maliciously slamming the American...
...This should be one of the goals of our discussions of detente with the Soviet Union...
...And Mrs...
...The fact-finding mission, she observed, "was a sobering, highly educational, experience...
...Peter O'Toc looks desperate to escape from his role mastermind of international intelligent the abducted chickies look no more convenienced than if they had been tak for a weekend of romance, and Richa Attenborough looks ridiculous as Anglo-Arab messiah...
...Fenwick did not have time to em)ellish her speech with detail, but the ransfer of power in Lithuania was an orierly one...
...Fenwick's study of the basic international realities during her first months in office led her to the view that America's defense posture must be at once responsible and sane...
...sic transit gloria Hollywood...
...Day of the Locust: The Nathanael West classic about Hollywood's has-beens and would-be-greats lavishly filmed and lovingly acted by Karen Black, Donald Sutherland, Burgess Meredith, and newcomer William Atherton...
...Almost, boys, almost...
...it will no doubt be held up as a model of cinema genius for many years, Not to be missed...
...The American people, said, would not and should not finan( such a continuing commitment overseas "We have many problems at home the need attention," she argued...
...The hypothetical quesTHE PUBLIC INTEREST • BOX 542 • OLD CHELSEA POST OFFICE • NEW YORK, N.Y...
...Fenwick has written that in Cambodia "the basic reality is China...
...Before hi election to Congress, as director of tE State of New Jersey's bureau of coi sumer affairs, Mrs...
...Eidelberg is also occasionally careless with respect to details (John Rawls' "original position" is mislabeled the "ordinary position...
...Lithuania" is probably one of the k words the reader would expect to counter at this point...
...No great shakes as movie, but light-hearted fun...
...Each is splendid in his role, and the horrifying conclusion, reflecting West's morbid vision of fame's fleeting power and the mob's hysteria, is a tour de, force...
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...This was a flight from reality...
...military aid, for a limited period of time...
...Fenwick observed, the only remaining question was "how to achieve an orderly transfer of power, and the basic reality is China...
...But the Lithuanian mind was clouded by superstition—the nation's majority then being devoutly Roman Catholic (there were exceptions—an embryonic Libertarian movement...
...Our h( slaughters nearly half the baddies of Japan (these all converse in high N ponese grunts and groans), all to rescui wee Japanese princess (who is ab( eight years old and somehow speaks p fect English) and find out the mystery c miniature Japanese scroll...
...must never again commit ground troops in a ground war...
...Along tl way they romp and frolic with Elizabe Ashley, Slim Pickens, and a variety other characters...
...the acting's heavy, a Mitchum is excellent in a fairly ludicrc role...
...This frank recognition of political realities could be termed Realpolitik, only this article isn't written in German...
...It would at least be a sobe ing, highly educational experience...
...In House speech last March, she observe "In an era of increasing inte dependence, we as a people are more al more affected by the results of gloE problems...
...We must have a solid capacity for defense," she wrote...
...Had he moderated his passion and limited his rather grandiose aims, Eidelberg might have written an even better book...
...The final solution to the Cambodia crisis was also anticipated by Mrs...
...The benefits of this policy were quick to be reaped...
...All the South Vietnamese she spoke with, including members of the political opposition, were vehemently opposed to the Communists...
...sixty thousand others were sent to Siberia...
...As probably tl most serious student of global realities ( the Republican side of the aisle in tl House of Representatives, she will have major role whichever direction her par takes—either toward a broadened base a greater ideological purity...
...EMINENTOES (continued from page 2) the subject of one of Mrs...
...In a House speech she reviewed the history of this short-lived republic, concluding -starkly: "In 1940, Russia occupied Lithuania, held a phony election, and in:orporated Lithuania into the USSR...
...III Rosebud: Leave it to Otto Preming to take the fascinating possibilities Arab terrorism as a cinema theme a turn it into sheer tedium...
...They cheered wildly on Oscar-night when this monumental piece of propaganda won its award...
...We must have a clear foreign policy, soundly based on public debate and consensus, about our responsibilities...
...But as regards foreig affairs this is no longer true...
...With scarcely muffled emotic Mrs...
...But it had no alternative...
...Speaker, we have heard ittle from Lithuania...
...Needless to say, it is very messy indeed...
...Millicent H. Fenwick, freshman Republican Representative from New Jersey's Fifth Congressional District...
...It is hoped that the way will soon be open for documentaries of Cambodian life by some of our prominent American actresses...
...But Lithuania w (continued on page 35) 2 The Alternative: An American Spectator August/September 19 problem of our times, to which few political scientists have devoted attention...
...Aside from the difficulties in Eidelberg's argument that I have mentioned, however, the book ismarred by a doctrinaire and unnecessarily contentious tone (in one of the author's frequent asides, for instance, we are suddenly informed that Iiincidentally, the superabundance of sentimentalism and moral purism in contemporary political oratory is symptomatic of an effeminate age wavering between adolescence and senility...
...Fenwick's major foreign policy addresses...
...36 The Alternative: An American Spectator August/September...
...Everything is designed to distort reality so that only America is evil, only American generals are stupid, only America contributes to Vietnam's woes, only America's people are warmongers, only American politicos are dumb...
...why we should hear the A propriations Subcommittee calling f massive cutbacks in U.S...
...Cambodians—except for the corrupt Lon Nol and his 300,000 closest advisers—have had nothing to fear from the Khmer Rouge...
...There may indeed be critical difficulties in the classical as well as the modern views of politics...
...military aid would "only delay the development of the kind of stable situation—whatever form that takes—that will at least stop the horrible suffering of war...
...Fenwick sought help her state's shoppers economize...
...Mrs...
...A Discourse on Statesmanship is a thoughtful and thought-provoking work of scholarship, well worth the attention of all serious students of politics, philosophy, and history...
...Love at the Top: Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a man whose dream is "to have lots of money and sleep with many women...
...Fen-wick became a heroine for many Americans when in March 1975—upon return from the Congressional fact-finding mission to Cambodia and South Vietnam—she said that U.S...
...One drop more of Kismet and the movie would be unbearable...
...slight bit of sex tease does little to era the boredom of this predictable, ovc drawn bit of occult silliness...
...Donkey Skin: A fairy tale about incest that is so saccharine it might rot your teeth...
...Brudnoy's Film Index • ^ And Now My Love: The past, truly, is prologue, in this hokey but winning love story of two young people whose coming together is occasioned, more or less, by the story of their ancestors...
...That month the Nazis invaded, exterminating the country's Jewish population over the next three years...
...Basically there are three forms of government—monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy—so it can be assumed that Cambodia will ultimately settle on one of them...
...In 1945-46,145,000 Lithuanians were removed from their homeland, and in 1949 another 60,000 of them were taken to Siberia and northern Russia...
...It is the crumbs ft.( our table...
...The acting settles in the stomach like an English breakfast, rendering the viewer incapable of response...
...The women he sleeps with are lovely, especially Florinda Bolkan (of A Brief Vacation), and his crawl to the top is both funny and tragic...
...But, morally, America has an immense commitment...
...Hint: it is one of the Emperor's missing tape tr: scripts...
...Less intelligible than this practical intention of Eidelberg's, however, is his theoretical project of bringing about a "synthesis" of ancient and modern political science...
...Yet during the 1945-53 period tens of thousands of young Lithuanians were reported to be hiding in the country's forests...
...Third, there is a preponderance of liberals in Asia...
...Mrs...
...with luck it will become a cult classic for hippies who've gone that route with Disney's Fantasia...
...This could be the start of a controlled and stable situation...
...Then free elections could be held...
...This one is best seen tripping...
...China is a democracy, so it seems likely that Cambodia will choose to follow that governmental system...
...No sooner had Prince Sihanouk returned to power than he was seeking to re-establish friendly relations with the United States, and within little more than a month there were Cambodian initiatives to share with the U.S...
...1111 The Silent Stranger: A sukiy: Western set in Japan in the 1880s, WI ten by and produced by and starring o Tony Anthony, about whom you will h( little in coming years, unless a garg: tuan lack of talent catches on...
...It is not a big c in what we have...
...is difficult to understand, given this ow whelming sentiment of the Americ people...
...Of course, we learned in Vietnam that the U.S...
...He triumphs, as does this odd but compelling French comedy...
...She cautioned that further military aid to the Lon Nol government "would be useless and might, in fact, be misunderstood as continuing support for Lon Nol and a rebuff to Prince Sihanouk...
...She fee that social concern is not somethit which stops at national boundaries...
...In fact the new Cambodian regime has been busy putting into action an innovative plan to solve its country's urban crisis—a plan which might well be imitated by our own policy makers...
...Soviet control has Seen complete over news and emigra-ion...
...We race through time from turn-of-the-century coquettishness to contemporary jet-set romance...
...The Passenger: Michelangelo Antonioni's latest, a chilling, truly magnificent peek into the problem of identity, with the usual Ahtonioni mysteries rolling out one after another...
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...Fenwick's Congressional candidacy, ci ing a long record of social concern (he debut was in 1929...
...We have no alternative...
...Fenwick's counsel, delaying aid and, thus, bringing the war to a peaceful conclusion...
...Chicago is the largest urban center in the state of Illinois, which is somewhere in the Midwest...
...Nevertheless, if the sort of singing that infested The Umbrellas of Cherbourg some years back is your cup of treacle, this is for you...
...Mrs...
...the whole intelligentsia) vere rounded up and sent to Siberia...
...This subscription will begin with the next issue...
...as it is, it envelopes the viewer in its web of circumstance...
...Mrs...
...The locati shots are fine...
...Most experts now admit that the failure of the Rock Island Line doomed the city monthsago...
...The newly elected municipal government would then resign so that a more broadly based coalition could be formed, including all elements...
...since then, Mr...
...Yet political support for her has come from some of the most enlightened quarters...
...one year $7.50 ^ two years $14.00 Name Address City State Zip 1 -le Alternative: An American Spectator August/September 1975 35 tion people in Washington are asking is—does the United States have a legal or moral commitment to defend Chicago...
...Before anything is done, though, Mayor Daley would have to resign so that free elections could be held...
...London survives, Wayne survives, crime survives, and admittedly the scenery and special effects are nice...
...The Soviet Union had clearly become Lithuania's basic reality...
...foreign aid She appealed to her Congressional c, leagues on moral or religious grounc "We are only asked to give the crum that fall from our table...
...Chicago is not a signatory to either the SEATO or NATO treaties...
...By Claude Lelouch, who brought us A Man and a Woman in 1966...
...But the United States would not lose prestige if foreign troops were to occupy Chicago...
...All in all, the Southeast Asian war has been a sobering, highly educational experience...
...Fortunately, Congress followed Mrs...
...The French Connection, II: Gene Hackman is back as Popeye Doyle, the drug-chasing New York cop, here transplanted to France to tidy up the loose ends from installment #1...
...There were more than five thousand political executions, and an overall disappearance of 45,000 thousand Lithuanians from their homeland...
...In the 1960 another member of the House, Melv Laird, was elevated to the Cabin( Should the world situation deteriora radically, perhaps Mrs...
...The Yakuza: Nippon once more, tl time today's industrialized Japan, w the Oriental Mafia battling Rob( Mitchum...
...Rancho De Luxe: Wall, podner, here's yo' little ole tale of the 00000ld West —1974—with two greedy, eager, horny young bucks (Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston) hot to make it big by cattle rustlin...
...Should the citizens of Chicago demonstrate a sincere commitment to democratic government, the way would be open for extensive U.S...
...The Reincarnation of Peter Prou Dijd-vu carried to its ultimate...
...First, the United States shouldn't allow itself to become embroiled in a war involving a foreign country...
...Fenwick will fix a Secretaryship of State in the offing...
...Brannigan: They've poured John Wayne into his detective threads—one of his three basic outfits, alternating with his cowboy and his leatherneck suits—and plopped him down in darkest London in hot pursuit of a baddie...
...The added twist this time: Popeye made into a junkie, undergoing one of the most gruesome cold turkey scenes on film...
...The long suffering of the Lithuanians, however, might be nearing an end...
...A sli piece of trash designed to cash in on t] dregs of the Exorcist mania, with the t: ented Michael Sarrazin strugglii personfully against inane material...
...In Lon Nol, the world lost not only a well-known head of state, but also a valuable palindrome...
...The leade ship we are getting there is as excellei as it was 30 years ago...
...The only question is how we got it volved in the first place...
...Surprisingly, Mrs...
...Fenwick found the situation in South Vietnam similar to that in Cambodia—only no Prince Sihanouk, no Mike Mansfield...
...10011 Shouldn't you be reading this intelligent quarterly edited by Irving Kristol and Nathan Glazer...
...Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider put more verve into this film than he usually does and than she did in Last Tango in Paris: They totally submerge themselves in their roles, and the result is absolutely first-rate acting...
...Congress wisely forebore from any action which could have been misconstrued as a rebuff to Prince Sihanouk...
...I have no doubt," Mrs...
...Perhaps the newsmagazines are rigl that the United States is suffering leadership crisis...
...Legally, the answer is no...
...These are observable violations of personal freedom...
...Although the fighting stopped soon after Mrs...
...The conclusion is instant classic...
...Fenwick's return from Asia, it remained uncertain exactly what form the stabilization would take, particularly in Cambodia...
...Some people wi bring up the "domino" theory, but that the argument Lyndon Johnson used i Vietnam...
...The surprise was considerable when, less than a month later, the South Vietnamese chose Communism...
...Fenwick has continued demonstrate her capacity to learn, an ir portant asset in politics...
...But," she added, "the lesson here is that it must be their choice—not ours...
...The Nazi-Soviet nonaggression )act was signed on August 23, 1939, and n October the Red Army garrisoned sev!ral Lithuanian localities...
...Fenwick told the House, "that they will again one day achieve self-government...
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