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...indifferently lighted Death of a Salesman are missing the point. (Besides, if it's a death, it's a movie death. A central duplicity is being practiced here-a duplicity which violently, perhaps fatally, transgresses principles of minimum interference. How likely is it that a man whose drag a film crew wit him from house to house, despite tapering sales?) This isn't any salesman; it is a Bible salesman. The choice is not that arbitrary. The world of commerce has sucked up religious life; Christ's passion is another pitch in American's long sales talk. The contradictions...

Author: By Joel Haycock, ENDS TODAY AT THE KENMORE SQUARE | Title: The Moviegoer | 7/29/1969 | See Source »

After lunch patients returned to their corners to resume sleep. A few scavenged in the ashtrays and wastebaskets for a last drag on a crushed cigarette butt. Cigarettes were an opiate--sleep, an escape. On my right a woman sat lethargically in her chair--her eyes heavy and dull. I tried to start a conversation but she turned to the wall, flashing a look tat could only mean "Leave me alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chronic Ward | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

When geniuses in every nation Hasten us toward obliteration Perhaps it'll take the dolts and geese To drag us backward into peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 18, 1969 | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...director, Louis Criss, should require any defense, he need only point to no less a name than Emerson--consistency is the bugaboo of little minds, and Criss will have none of it. He always keeps the pace moving fast (this is one three-hour Loeb production that doesn't drag), sometimes too fast (the ending, particularly, is quite confusing), while all the time throwing in lets of contemporary asides. I could quibble over whether many of the adlibs should have been included. (Mentioning Bristol, Disneyland, and Somerville in the same line doesn't strike me as particularly funny. Even black...

Author: By Grego J. Kilday, | Title: The Hostage | 7/15/1969 | See Source »

...upon the South Vietnamese for protection. On several occasions, the South Vietnamese refused to respond to pleas by ambushed engineers. Four weeks ago, a 20-man ARVN guard detail deserted a U.S. working party when North Vietnamese ambushers opened fire. Cursing their allies, the surviving Americans finally managed to drag their dead and wounded to safety. Over an eight-week period, the U.S. engineers lost 19 men killed and 120 wounded, in part because they received inadequate protection from their allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Lesson of Ben Het | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

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