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Hawaii purports to be a saga of the ruin of a perfect, if primitive, society at the hands of imperialistic religious zealots, come from New England to bring Christianity to the heathens. The script focuses on Abner Hale (Max von Sydow), a dense Bible-thumping Reverend who blunders proudly into the Hawaiian islands with his wife Jerusha (Julie Andrews) and, in the course of a generation, corrupts the island he has come to save, wearing out his wife in the process.Hawaii, then, has pretensions toward huge themes: the conflict between love of God and love of women, the problem...
Adam Clayton Powell has many proclivities in common with George Gordon Byron, but he has one clear occupational advantage over the poet. He composes his own sermons. Last week, addressing the faithful at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, Pastor-Congressman Powell recounted the saga of Daniel, with himself in the starring role. The lions, he implied, were those ravening "racists" on his House Education and Labor Committee who planned to make entrecote of their chairman...
BORN FREE. Another African saga, based on Joy Adamson's book about Elsa the lioness. The cat cast is in top form...
...message" in the Ring cycle, and many students take on a muzzy, Middle-earth look when they try to explain its appeal. To some, it is a poetic portrayal of the times, with Sauron and his destructive threat seen as an analogy to atomic war. For others, the Frodo saga represents a way to escape the mundane realities of life. "I'd like to live in the hobbit world because this world is so foul," says Marilyn Nulman, who works at the Harvard bookstore. Another enthusiast likes the Rings' old-fashioned moral simplicity: "You cheer the hero...
...truth turns out to be like peeling through several skins of an onion. First-Novelist Frederick Keefe, who is an editor of The New Yorker, conducts his unhappy murderer-lieutenant to a surprise ending. But it is about the only surprise in this otherwise pat and overseemly saga...