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THIS IS THE particular genius of Dick Bartlett. Films in the fifties went through a sort of social revolution when they started showing busdrivers and such people as ordinary human guys. These films mostly treated their characters with a neo-realist awareness of social problems and the dignity of the little man in a condescending celebration of the unwashed. Ruby, on the other hand, doesn't represent anybody but a human being. If you look at us in the right way, we're all pretty funny...
...former president of the Common Market Commission, was easily re-elected a Christian Democratic Deputy. Admiral Gino Birindelli, until recently commander of NATO's Mediterranean naval forces and now the darling of Italy's right, also won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, representing the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano...
...President Nixon's highest advisers counseled him to find a dignified moment to ease Hoover out, and although the President resisted, he undoubtedly would have done so as soon as the criticism had sufficiently faded. Instead, the moment was chosen for him. One night last week in his neo-Georgian house at the edge of Washington's Rock Creek Park, John Edgar Hoover died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease...
...left," an alliance with the Socialists a decade ago. He has taken to attacking youthful demonstrators and proclaiming "we must react," as if to show that he is not now afraid to be called a reactionary. Fanfani, and leaders of other Italian parties, are really reacting to the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano, whose call for law-and-order-along with voter disenchantment with other issues-may well double M.S.I.'s small (24-seat) parliamentary bloc in next week's vote...
...WOULD indeed be miraculous if this nonsensical debate has not already convinced many students that all of our protest has now become silly and useless. But if we are ever to build a successful movement against neo-colonial wars, we must take this idea of "strike" and put it back on the shelf, where it belongs. If people wish to attend class, we should not waste time preventing them from doing so. We should instead concentrate on proposals for concrete, politically sensible courses of direct action. And if our actions are logical and appealing, more and more people will join...