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...after World War I. Now, in the face of the continuing Indochina War, New Left novelists sense a receptive audience and the antiwar literature is growing. Pacifist and radical filmmakers, too, have been busy. though their products do not reach a large audience. Only one major American film. The Ballad of the Green Berets, has been made about the Vietnam war, and its message follows the traditional shoot-em-up outline of cowboy and Indian movies...
...graceful love ballad, I Need You to Turn To, John plays the harpsichord with a delicate touch that creates just the right pinch of pink-cheeked, Highland-flavored romance. Songs like My Father's Gun and Talking Old Soldiers show the clear influence of The Band in their concern, respectively, for the history of the old American South and the ever-present pain of growing old. It is an influence freely and proudly conceded by the composers. One thing most of the songs have in common is a relentless rhythmic build-up from a quiet beginning. Burn Down...
...Ballad of Cable Hogue is not particularly relevant ... few good things ever...
Lacking the audacity to represent a naive childlike purity of faith, and incapable of the sophisticated myth-mocking irony of an Anouilh or a Giraudoux, Peter Stone rests his book, derived from Clifford Odets' The Flowering Peach, on the pitiably thin humor of anachronism. Except for one beguiling ballad, I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You, Richard Rodgers' score is almost barren of melodic appeal, and Martin Charnin's lyrics could have been ticked off by a metronome...
...Carpet." Beyond that, there are buttons (ARCHIE FOR HEISMAN TROPHY), bumper stickers (ARCHIE'S ARMY), Archie handbills, Archie posters, Archie dolls, Archie T shirts and an Archie campaign song that has sold more than 50,000 copies. Sung by the Rebel Rousers on the Hoddy Toddy label, The Ballad of Archie Who is a twangy tribute to "the best dadburned quarterback to ever play the game...