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...Guns are frequently easier to obtain in the southern part of the U.S.S.R., however, because of less rigid control and small-arms factories located in the area. Workers smuggle weapons out of the plants and sell them on the black market...
...Classicism is health," wrote Goethe. "Romanticism a disease." By those very rigid standards, First Love is a sick film-admirably sick with love. It is also the robust debut of a film maker to be admired and watched. Just about every actor insists that "what I really want to do is direct." Maximilian Schell has not been content merely to yearn; he has made it happen...
Quoted Scriptures. What the book mainly reveals is a keen and wide-ranging intelligence that is also peculiarly restricted. Not a single entry recants Lindbergh's frequently expressed overall admiration of Nazi Germany. Nor does his rigid rectitude permit him, even today, to entertain the possibility that America's involvement in World War II was the result of anything but choice. Lindbergh has often been accused of having been singularly unmoved by a postwar visit to a German concentration camp. Not so. "Here was a place," he wrote, "where men and life and death had reached the lowest...
Also, it is incorrect to make a rigid dichotomy between mass and clandestine violence, approving of the former and looking with horror upon terrorism. Such a dichotomy corresponds neither to the real development of any previous successful revolutionary movement nor to the strategic needs of this one. We believe that some forms of terrorism may be progressive at the present time (though decreasingly so). In saying this, we are by no means lending approval to all of the forms of terrorism which have taken place. Random assassination of rank-and-file police in white communities does not help build...
...Ikettes. The song had a Marvin Gaye-type sound, but the stations in Los Angeles said it wasn't Pop. It went on to sell 60,000 copies in Los Angeles, thereby proving its pop appeal. Ike feels that the hipped FM stations are an improvement, their programming less rigid and more sensitive...