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Jack Gelber's screenplay provides a loose framework in which the actors develop their roles. What symbolism he introduces is entirely appropriate. For instance, Cowboy dresses all in white, like an angel, and he brings with him Sister Salvation (Barbara Winchester), a little old lady with whom he has allied himself as protection against the police. While the addicts file in for their fixes, she delivers a little sermon, but the salvation she offers is as insubstantial as Cowboy...
...brutal invasion by mechanized forces" would cause the enemy to "collapse through panic." Ailleret does not say flatly which side would panic first in such a war, but concludes confidently that victory would go to the government that is "capable of assuring the nation, through a sufficiently solid framework, of a stability that will permit its nerves to hold as long as possible." Meaning France...
This background fits well in the framework of the Lodge family's dedication to public service. Lodge's grandfather and namesake was a Senate leader during the early part of this century. And in addition to Son George's political endeavors, Cabot can claim a younger brother, John, 60, who was Ambassador to Spain (1955-56) as well as a U.S. Congressman and Governor of Connecticut. Cabot's wife Emily, while not a political figure herself, displays the kind of attractiveness and charm that help win elections...
...will disappear if we all merely wrap ourselves in the Stars and Stripes." Instead, he said, the party must foster change, but in its own way. "We can devise a hundred different bold new attacks on the problems of America, and we can do it without going outside the framework of the Constitution and the Federal principle...
...situation in Mississippi, Weaver said, "is not our for moderate solutions." There will be "no deals, no compromises. Nothing is going to be accomplished within the framework of government as it exists in the state...