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...first like to mention that if it is l'art pour l'art he is after, he has definitely filled the bill and in a new way. Secondly, Warhol celebrates the victorious condition of mass production. If mass production is not what is victorious and heroic, then Henry Ford has been vastly overrated. And who said anything about morality when Ford produced autos...
...solidarity with the accused is also based on our respect for them as Christians dedicated to non-violence. From the heroic leadership which they have given the peace movement in this country, we have drawn inspiration. The charges made against them imply that they have planned actions which are foreign to their declared ideals. We believe them innocent...
Victory is the province of culture heroes. One of the effects of Warhol's work that painters will need to grapple with for some time yet is his amoral transparency which has made a heroic role in art look, for the moment, inflated: maybe even impossible...
...ever really found out who threw the bomb, but the arrested anarchists became revolutionary heroes, the dead and wounded became martyrs in the heroic class struggle, and May Day became a worldwide revolutionary holiday. Those were violent days-the history of the American labor movement is the bloodiest in the world. And yet, despite all the blood and the strikes and the propaganda of the left, the revolution never came in America. The left remained isolated-much of its membership was made up of left-wing intellectuals who had come to this country and formed revolutionary subcultures-and the organizers...
Russian Director Bondarchuk took a brief, withering look at Napoleon swallowed by the long Moscow winter in War and Peace. But that was on home grounds. This time, on western European turf, he rather favors the little Corsican with properly heroic proportions. But he gives the British aristocracy only the back of his hand. Every man Jack of them is portrayed as an arbitrary prig, none more so than Wellington (Christopher Plummer). Yet even these lead soldiers give more credible performances than Rod Steiger in his oppressive, self-congratulatory Napoleon. Scene after marching scene, every familiar Steigerian trick passes...