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The film opens with Santayana's aphorism, "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it," and no more words appear on the screen until the film's conclusion, when the countryside idyll Lucien is enjoying is interrupted by his death-sentence: "Lacombe, Lucien was arrested, court...
In the execution of Equus there are no ambiguities. Together with Director John Dexter and Set Designer John Napier, Shaffer has fashioned a spectacle dominated by horses: actors who bear on their heads equine masks and on their feet wear 6-in.-high hoofs that thud with the menace of...
The facts of the Chilean experience totally contradict Kissinger's view of the relationship between U.S. aid and human rights. The U.S. trained, equipped and advised the Chilean officer corps which carried out a coup in which, depending on one's sources, some 2000 to 37,000 Chileans have lost...
It was just such forlorn human beings whom Abraham Lincoln, the greatest of presidential pardoners, could not resist. Lincoln believed in a stern divine justice, yet time and again during the Civil War he exasperated his generals by pardoning boys who faced execution for such capital crimes as sleeping on...
Mr. Chessman had been convicted of raping two girls on two separate occasions at the point of a gun. As attorney general I had fought hard for affirmance of the conviction and the execution of Mr. Chessman. I then became Governor and was faced with a difficult problem-not of...