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Algiers is in the great tradition of the first neo-realist masterpieces, Rosselini's Open City and Visconti's La Terra Trema. But where those two films dealt entirely with killing and oppression of the weak by Fascists and reactionary capitalists, the killing of innocent people in Algiers is committed mostly by the NLF, Pontecorvo's heroes. In accepting the slaughter of hundreds of citizens, guilty only in their complacent acceptance of a derelict social structure, Pontecorvo emphasizes the validity of necessary social upheaval, regardless of its price. Each death becomes not a crime of the NLF but the tragic...
...Brinksmanship" by Ernest J. Wilson, one of two promising new writers on the Lampoon, contains clever characterizations of our favorite national heroes--Ike, McNamara, Rusk. The other rising light on the magazine is James T. Hill, who contributes a bizarre tale of a "former neo-Trotsktie" who goes "from Molotov to White House cocktails in one weekend with hardly a brainwash...
While Nkrumah's ministers raced around with their mistresses in big Mercedes cars, Ghana's new rulers stress thrift, churchgoing and close family ties. They are hospitable to foreigners; outside the capital of Accra, billboards that once proclaimed "Down with Neo-Colonialism" now read "Ghana Welcomes Foreign Investment." One sure sign that Ghana is a different place these days was the friendly visit there last week by Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the first top U.S. official to visit Ghana since Richard Nixon went to its independence celebrations...
Insofar as hippie religion is organized at all, it divides into three wings of more or less equal importance. One is the Neo-American Church, which claims an affiliation with the Native American Church, an authentic sect of primitive nature worshipers among the American Indian tribes in the Southwest. The connection is not the hippie love of red men but the fact that the Indians use the hallucinogenic drug peyote as a sacrament in their ceremonies...
...this mystical melange, hippie communities are developing clearly identifiable sects, with their own clergy, formal meetings and even liturgy. These groups borrow unabashedly from all three main strands of the psychedelic faith. The Neo-American Church, whose pastors are known as "boo-hoos" (the absurd title is meant to keep "an element of humor in our institutional affairs"), uses prayers from Buddhism, Tantric Yoga and Mohawk moccasins in its pseudo-marriage ceremonies. One popular center of hippie worship in Los Angeles is the Oracle-Cosmic Joy Fellowship, whose prelates are known as "coordinators." At its regular services, worshipers sit cross...