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...rabbinate for not allowing them to marry. The impediment: Avshalom was born into the Bene Israel sect, which has some 15,000 members in India and 7,000 in Israel. Reputedly in India for 2,000 years, the Bene Israelis were long cut off from communication with the mainstream of Judaism, and purists maintain that they developed rules of marriage and divorce that were not in accordance with religious law-hence many of them must be technically momzerim (bastards), and it is forbidden for an Orthodox Jew to marry anyone who is illegitimate...
...mainstream of scientific thought" holds that limitation of births all over the world ("of which Connecticut is a part") is desirable for health and necessary to the survival of the human race...
...member of the "Mainstream" Trotskyite faction, Aruga is far out politically. Though currently allied with the Socialists and Communists, he expects eventually to fight them both. Why? Because they, just like the capitalists, are "enemies of peace, democracy and student freedom." What is needed, says Aruga, are "people's revolutions in all countries" to overthrow "corrupt" rulers. Once that has been done, people are so innately good, he says. that they will require only "minimum control by government." Except for the fact that nuclear war would "lead to humanity's end," Aruga would applaud a death struggle between...
...Japanese public down on their heads, the Reds lost their nerve and announced that in the future they would be "lovable." This concession outraged many Zengakuren hotheads who labeled the Communists "sissified," and voted into the top leadership a toughminded Trotskyite group, which is now called the "mainstream faction." Mainstreamers are so far out politically that they consider Khrushchev a "traitor" to the proletariat. As a result, Communist students are considered "moderates" by the Japanese press in contrast with the club-swinging mainstreamers. But it was the Communist "moderates" who besieged Hagerty's car at the airport...
This is the mainstream of the story, and the script should have followed it through the film. Instead, it wanders aimlessly into backwaters of violence, sex, segregation and even antiSemitism. The sex develops into a love affair that, as these things go in Hollywood productions, is unusually fierce and sweet and natural. But the rough stuff is merely conventional, and the race question, in the last analysis, is begged. Kazan's direction, however, is firm-most of the leading players give creditable performances, and Lee Remick, as the back-country belle the hero falls for, is singularly touching. Most...