One of the Just: In memory of Mary Widman
Moore, Nina Polcyn
Japan's past record), and the potential threat a growing Soviet naval presence represents to shipping lanes in the Far East. Given the dependence of each country on trade, this is a genuinely...
...She asked whether the OMEGA site was relevant to the verification of SALT...
...In the novel, Eugenia has great presence...
...Others have had to be cut...
...In these circumstances the issue becomes whether America's allies would want to be in the middle of the crunch...
...She is not a pretty woman--in fact, a couple of characters The University of Santa Clara A H i s t o r y , i 8 5 i - i 9 7 7 Gerald McKevitt, S.J...
...Commonweal: 690I Screen I I GILT BY ASSOCIATION TAKING THINGS I.ZERAI J.Y A ND BESIDES, Leon Edel is deceiving himself...
...Aping the precept for art that it should hold a mirror up to nature, Ivory's film holds a mirror np to James's novel...
...Lizzie is the sister of Robert Acton (Robin Ellis), a wealthy bachelor on whom Eugenia has designs...
...But I suspect that what Edel really likes the movie for is its weakness...
...If you bring to the movie an intense and vivid experience of James's own Writing, that experience easily overrides the movie itself...
...These are just, as the novel's own heroine might say in a teasing tone, "peccadillos...
...This study describes all aspects of Santa Clara's colorful past--from abortive attempts to finance the college by making wine to the I96o's controversy over the admission of women--providing a fascinating case study of Catholic higher education over the past century...
...In other words, a world in which the superpowers solve their basic bilateral differences and in doing so tacitly agree on a diversion of power and influence throughout the rest of the globe...
...It seems to be that ultimate compliment which movies can pay to literature: a literal adaptation...
...SALT may present the American people with a lot of confusing aspects...
...If a movie doesn't transform adapted material on purpos e , it will do so by chance, and badly...
...Since Edel is one of our leading lames scholars, his approval has clout...
...In New Zealand, for instance, a current cause c~l~bre is whether American nuclear-powered ships ought to be allowed into New Zealand ports (the controversy has been spurred by the Pentagon's admission it has restricted the entry of such ships into New York harbor...
...One reversal which occurs, for instance, is between the characters of the Baroness Eugenia (Lee Remick) and Lizzie Acton (Kristin Griffith...
...In Jhabvala's screenplay- Lizzie is a more prominent character than in lames's novel, where she remains indistinct and rather bland...
...One scene has been added (a ball...
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...Many in the country oppose it vehemently because of their concern that it may involve Australia in some future Soviet-American confrontation, i.e., providing a target for an unfriendly Soviet missile...
...In both Australia and New Zealand today there are powerful forces on the left of the political spectrum who are arguing that the previous close security link with the United States ought to be modified to the extent that it involves the potential use of nuclear weapons to "protect" their country's national security...
...When I said I didn't think OMEGA had any re~levance to SALT--which this lady strongly supported--she sighed contentedly and said, "Oh, good, then I can go on fighting like mad against their completing this thing...
...The proportions of certain roles have been altered...
...A directly opposite concern, on the other hand, is that the superpowers will not moderate their nuclear rivalry, thus making a future nuclear confrontation more likely...
...But there really is no such thing as a literal adaptation, for the mere difference in the two media changes whatever is adapted...
...Because the movie has this effect on anybody who is steeped in James, I think Edel deceives himself that somehow the film can represent the novel for the rest of us as well...
...But in the process, Lizzie takes on Eugenia's character...
...At worst they are supposed to be taken as the changes to which any filmmaker would have to resort in order to tell the novel's story...
...Most of the changes that director lames Ivory and scriptwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala have made inThe Europeans seem to be of the fussy sort...
...The Labor Party in New Zealand has in fact officially adopted a proposal to create a nuclear-free zone throughout the South Pacific, including New Zealand...
...And like all mirrors, it gets everyth!ng backwards...
...Edel would notice were he to pay more attention to the movieper se...
...In my last column, I was trying to undermine the authority with iwhich Edel seems to speak when he praises the current film adaptation of Henry James's The Europeans...
...OMEGA is a communications and satellite-tracking station currently being constructed by the United States in central Australia...
...Even for staunch allies like the Filipinos or the Aussies such a prospect is regarded with considerable misgiving...
...There was a lusty round of applause as she sat down...
...One impression garnered from these sessions that perhaps we in the United States ought to weigh is the uneasy feeling that to the extent the SALT talks succeed, the outlines of what has been called a Soviet-American "condominium" become more of a possibility...
...The movie acts as a neutral medium for a remembrance of the novel...
...The uncertainties and contradictory feelings about the Soviet-American nuclear arms rivalry, however, are not confined to our own shores...
...Founded in x 851 as a Jesuit college, the University of Santa Clara became California's first institution of higher learning...
...Lizzie's role has been built up this way in order to provide an adversary for Eugenia and a sounding board for Robert's misgivings about her, which are revealed in the novel through the device films don't have of eavesdropping on someone's thoughts...
...The ambiguity that one observes toward the American connection even as there is general support for the SALT treaty was perhaps symbolized by the comment of one crusty old Labor Party dowager in Melbourne...
...Given the dependence of each country on trade, this is a genuinely worrisome matter and in fact is seen as much more of an immediate security problem than Moscow's vaunted nuclear might...
...Yet they alter James considerably, as Mr...
Vol. 106 • December 1979 • No. 22
