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Movies used to portray Indians as grunting marauders. Now everything about them, from their history to their handicraft, has become topical, even chic. In recent films they have been treated-or mistreated-as the newest social problem (Journey Through Rosebud) or as symbolic Vietnamese (Soldier Blue). When the Legends Die is one of the rare movies that seem genuinely to express, even in a small way, the strangled rage and uncertainty of the modern Indian...
...says repeatedly that in his administration "the government will be turned over to the people." He told crowds all over the northeast last week that if he were elected he would close $22 billion dollars worth of tax loopholes which now exist. In his rhetoric, McGovern also tries to portray himself as a friend of the little man. In speech after speech McGovern says that "there is no reason why a Wall Street banker can deduct his $20 martini luncheon and the average working guy in this country can't deduct the cost of his bologna sandwich...
...baffling array of symbols. The most frequently recurring images are horned figures-what De Lumley calls "stylized cattle." There are also daggers, crosslike inscriptions, stars and geometric forms, all of which may have had religious significance. Only a few hundred of the 37,000 engravings catalogued thus far portray human figures: one example, known as the "Chief of the Tribe," shows a man formed almost entirely out of horn symbols...
Incorrectly the article attempts to portray Professor Guinier as an ignorant dictator. It is erroneously stated that Professor Guinier is the only full professor not holding a doctorate degree. My research found that several such professors exist--perhaps the most not able being Professor Erik Erikson. Professor Guinier's background speaks for itself, and he has no need of my supportive statements regarding his value. In terms of who runs the Department, however, I must say that the article makes no use of information already in print on the subject. The author fails to note that students have played...
This failure to clearly portray individuals becomes extraordinary in light of a principal philosophical stance expressed by Solzhenitsyn. He argues that individuals especially through their personal incompetence have a personal force on history that Tolstoy excludes in War and Peace He makes this assertion in a direct comment to the reader, dropping any particular distance that an author might want to keep for the action of his novel, and contradicts Tolstoy by name in a short expository essay sitting roughly in the middle of the narrative...