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...Finally, oats, corn and beans were made to grow, and the government ended the Villistas' raids. Today, the colony supports 15,000 Mennonites who live in 54 campos, small communities of 40 or 50 families. In some ways the Chihuahua settlers are less determinedly orthodox than the Amish of Pennsylvania. The men wear ordinary straw hats, overalls and work shoes, and the women wear colored homespun (only the older women cling to the black dress). Buttons and zippers are not considered works of the Devil, nails are used in construction, and there are no hex signs on the barns...
...itself is staged with the subtle unreality - in which dreamy calm and awful violence lie, like lion and lamb, impossibly together - that marks the real thing. And the denouement is achieved with a stroke so strong that it makes the rest of the picture seem a little weak. An Amish farmer (Ernest Borgnine), committed by his deepest beliefs to non violence, kills the last of the killers to save the life of an innocent man (Victor Mature). He drives a pitchfork into the brute's back as if he were a bale of hay; and yet as he strikes...
...agreeable one with every so often a really funny line. By bringing to Pennsylvania a sophisticated young New Yorker (with a farm to sell) and his acidly vivacious girl friend, Plain and Fancy achieves some entertaining contrasts between plain and fancy living, country and city ways. When the Amish aren't donning their buttonless clothes, "shunning" a miscreant or putting up a barn, the city gal is being ogled by six frighteningly silent Amish youths, or is trying to pump water, churn butter, cook rice and grind sausage all at once-which makes the gayest five minutes...
Shirl Conway, the harassed New York visitor, is also the show's gayest figure. Richard Derr is engaging as her city beau; and Gloria Marlowe and Barbara Cook make two fresh and appealing Amish ingenues. Tamiris has devised some dances hat have lure as well as local color, and Raoul Pene du Bois some pleasant sets...
...thirds of the 3,906 U.S. conscientious objectors currently in alternative civilian service are Mennonites and Amish, the National Service Board for Religious Objectors announced. Next largest group (343); Church of the Brethren. Jehovah's Witnesses ranked third with 163, the Quakers fourth with...