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Looking for the Few and the Brave...
...show what the war was really like. Instead, he made a hollow, melodramatic adventure story in which the dedicated, patriotic American soldiers were pitted against the sordid and infinitely evil Vietnamese; nearly every East Asian in the film was a leering, growling monster. In the end, our brave soldiers, having endured imprisonment, mutilation, and the deaths of their comrades, join their families and friends in a rousing rendition of "God Bless America." The controversy over The Deer Hunter's racism, its blind patriotism, and its historical inaccuracies (some would say lies) exploded in angry editorials and boycotts of the film...
Castrated cats evade brave rats...
...said he preferred a military solution at first, hoping for a rescue mission. He and fellow hostages found out about the April mission three months after it failed. Said Lee: "We thought the timing was lousy -too little, too late. But it's easy for me to be brave now that I'm sitting here safe...
Case histories make that easy to believe. The books that are most often attacked would make a nice library for anybody with broad-gauged taste. Among them: Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Catch-22, Soul on Ice, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Little Black Sambo and Merchant of Venice run into recurring protests based on suspicions that the former is antiblack, the latter antiSemitic. One school board banned Making It with Mademoiselle, but reversed the decision after finding out it was a how-to pattern book for youngsters hoping to learn...