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Washington Square is said to compare favorably with last winter's revisionist Portrait of a Lady , since it "respects James' complexities and bitter ironies" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Critics also praise its "brusque, energetic pace" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and Leigh's "heartbreakingly good" performance ( People ). The New Republic 's Stanley Kauffmann dissents, calling the film "ill at ease, uncomfortable, straining for effect."
[I]t may be the very irrelevance of royalty which has helped protect us from excesses of patriotic fervor," he wrote--comparing Australians favorably with Americans, who "have a cloying sentimentality about their history, their flag, their president and their system."
Some very talented people have brought their knowledge to bear on everyday questions and problems of language in this book: Martin Manser, whose Penguin Wordmaster Dictionary was favorably reviewed here [XIV, 2]; Betty Kirkpatrick, editor of Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary ; Jonathon Green, compiler of the Thesaurus of Slang, Newspeak , and a Dictionary of Jargon (soon to be reviewed here); and John Silverlight, who writes a language column in The Observer , which I have not seen.
Corriere della Sera of Milan, in a front-page editorial, compared favorably the German government's well-prepared and well-argued proposal (although rejected by the voters of Hesse) to grant German citizenship to more than half its 7 million resident foreigners with the Italian government's sudden immigration decree which, it said, could generate xenophobia and racism.
*To-be-sure footnote: George W. Bush's ties to the petroleum industry wouldn't be looked on favorably during a recession triggered by high oil prices.
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