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...very long ago, it was in our power to crush them with a rod of iron, but we forbore in foolish charity and a mistaken belief that, after all, they were men like ourselves. Nothing human-even from New Haven-was alien to us, we said. Overlooking clear signs that the Yalies were indeed what our fathers said they were, we worked hard at trying to understand them. We met them. We talked with them. Compulsive do-gooders among us even read the Yalie Daily. Then came the election and the realization that...
...advice: no Roman Catholic prelate in the continental U.S. is likely to issue an open contradiction, but few are likely to agree with the Puerto Rican action. Press Sec retary Pierre Salinger rushed out a statement on Kennedy's behalf: "Senator Kennedy considers it wholly improper and alien to our democratic system for churchmen of any faith to tell the members of their church for whom to vote or for whom not to vote." Thus, once more Candidate Kennedy had helped blaze a trail for American Catholics in their evolving effort (TIME, Oct. 10) to get the church-state...
...source of trouble is that The Wall is an adaptation, something replanted in alien, resisting soil. With The Wall, the spatial element is an essential 'one, which the stage, unlike the cinema, cannot convey. The Wall in the theater proves neither personal in appeal nor panoramic in effect; it is too diffused to have impact as a story, too restricted for vast horror as a scene. A Diary of Anne Frank, by remaining the chronicle of a girl and confining its tragedy to a garret, could expand a family's fate into that of an entire race...
...profound emotional driving force behind the demand for equality, dignity, and independence. The white man's rule has been lauded in many articles and speeches and there is gratitude for the extensive experience of self-government which Nigeria has been given, but there is also abhorrance of alien colonial domination. While Sir Abubakar could claim that Nigeria's planned progress to independence was "unparalleled in the annals of history," it must not be forgotten that colonialism leaves deep and abiding scars...
There is nothing alien about The Cranes are Flying. It is a sympathetic, vibrant film, enriched by almost poetic photography and poignant music. Political but not doctrinaire, it serves to indicate that the Soviet political experience is not totally foreign and incomprehensible to Americans, and that the Russian fear of war is a very real and understandable fact. It is also heartening to see Soviet culture view itself with a little lightness, instead of repeating the more familiar encomiums...