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...tracks." The hospital even had a high school, from which James duly graduated. He still has high praise for it because it genuinely interested students in learning. "We didn't have that jive nothingness that pushes most kids through high school," he says. "You can't tell a whole bunch of potential suicides that they must have a high school diploma." Indeed, for the Taylors, the McLean experience would soon become what Harvard is for the Saltonstalls?something of a family tradition. Hardly had James graduated when Brother Livingston turned up after withdrawing from a Quaker school in Westtown...
Third, Clavell's all-precious story itself hearkens back to movie times previous even to those implied by the details of its production. The dirty Western has been with us for a long time, especially since The Wild Bunch made it artistically valid; Clavell's new film is an attempt to make a dirty swashbuckler. Clavell fails, but not totally without honor; he fails, in fact, because of his integrity. There was always a kind of folk realism to the Western. Audiences related to the films historically: this was their image of their past, a totally moral...
Danicl Patrick Moynihan, back at Harvard after serving as President Nixon's advisor on urban affairs, yesterday dismissed the Black Panthers as "a bunch of crazies...
...greatest threat to the country, according to Stone, is the military, which has to find or create work to justify the money it craves. The military mind sees the war as a scenario where "we're Buck Rogers (Boom! Boom!) up in the sky and there are a bunch of lesser breeds-gooks-on the ground," he said...
...comedy-variety show has evolved. It is the local newscast. Or at least the subspecies of newscast that has adopted what the trade calls the "happy-talk" format. On such programs the anchor man, the weatherman and the sportsman have been supplanted by a happy-go-lucky bunch of banana men. They are not the old authority figures, but just-folks team players. Cronkite is out; Gemütlichkeit is in. What counts is not how the banana men relate the news, but how they relate to each other...