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...troubled '60s, Wayne the political theorist and Wayne the film maker formed a merger. After mulling over the drama for 14 years, Wayne produced, directed and starred in The Alamo ? as Davy Crockett. The picture was about the Texans v. the troops of Santa Anna, but it was also, he said, "to remind people not only in America but everywhere that there were once men and women who had the guts to stand up for the things they believed...
...Wayne saw it, the Alamo was a metaphor for America. There was Mexicans and there was Us, there was black and there was white. "They tell me every thing isn't black and white," complains Wayne. I the hell...
...Midway through Johnson's Administration, it aroused a horde of critics from among those who favored his other policies, if not the man himself: the young, the black, the intellectuals and those whom Historian Eric Goldman calls metro-Americans-the educated, affluent, growing middle class to whom the Alamo psychology is as alien as a President who thrusts his operation-scarred belly at the public...
...only serves to steel the will of the fedayeen and win them new allies among the Jordanian people. Last March, an armored column of more than 1,000 Israeli men punched across the Jordan River to destroy a guerrilla base at Karamah. They succeeded, but Karamah became the fedayeen Alamo. In the furious battle, as El Fatah recounts it, one youth strapped a bundle of TNT around his waist and jumped on an Israeli tank, blowing himself up with it. From the surrounding hills, the regular Jordanian army poured a withering fire on Israeli troops, who had to fight their...
...intimacy seating 798, is a kind of womb with seats. Decked out in soft brown and nuzzling together like cattle, the rows of theater seats are concentrated reminders that the playgoer is in an edifice indigenous to the Southwest, a vivid memory link with the adobe hut and the Alamo. Aided by the Ford Foundation ($2,400,000) and bolstering that grant with $900,000 from the pocketed dimes of children as well as the black gold of oil, the people of Houston have much more to show for the money than a structure of civic pride. They have that...