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...grown-up is to go to a war movie and see if you jump under the seat. Clutching Bosley Crowther's condemnation to my polka-dotted dress. I rushed right over to The Dirty Dozen. I wanted to see if I could watch every last machine-gun fire, every last sock in the eye. Age doesn't make you callous, just confused about what's Right and Wrong. So when relief--a play or a novel or a movie with straight black and white characters--comes, you run to it. And since Mr. Crowther took such a tut-tut attitude...
...there is a trend away from James Bond--in its original conception, anyway. Casino Royale, the multi-Bond self-parody, should help put an end to this whole clumsy, device-laden, technically incompetent school of films. And it should be an end that pleases just about everyone (except possibly Bosley Crowther in whom some second-rate streak of romanticism was apparently aroused by the Bond movies...
...York Film Festival depends almost entirely on the output of the world's major directors, and on the highly debatable number of decent narrative films produced in a given year. The taste of the programmers is decidedly old-fashioned (the schedules proudly announced that one film was "discovered by Bosley Crowther"). Unless they are content to have history record them only as a show-case for the films of three or four great directors, the Festival committee must explore films outside of the straight-narrative form...
...weeks ago, Bosley Crowther called The Eleanor Roosevelt Story the best documentary ever made. For perhaps the first time in his professional life, Mr. Crowther is right...
...Protestant, Jewish and Roman Catholic clerics, sent twelve of its members on a "ministry of reconciliation" to Viet Nam. Among the delegates were Unitarian Universalist President Dana McLean Greeley; Baptist Minister Edwin T. Dahlberg, a former president of the National Council of Churches; and the Rev. Harold Bosley, pastor of Manhattan's Christ Methodist Church. On returning, the clerics proposed an immediate peace conference, including both Communist China and the National Liberation Front (meaning the Viet Cong...