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...Nixon influence has not yet saturated Washington in the way that John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson impressed their personalities on the city. But it has at least begun defining its own style. In time, it may become the Silent Majority's Camelot, although it is difficult to foresee the day when John Mitchell will be heaved into a swimming pool...
...wagon is a square with four wheels. In Paint Your Wagon the wheels are Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg and Harve Presnell. The square is Film Maker Joshua Logan, a successful stage director whose ponderous film adaptations (South Pacific, Fanny, Camelot) follow him like a string of mules...
Paint Your Wagon has the same composer (Frederick Loewe) and lyricist (Alan Jay Lerner) as Camelot. It also exhibits the same lack of knack. Again there are broad performances more appropriate to marionettes than men. Again there is the literal representation of lyrics, as when the camera shows pines waving to illustrate the haunting song. They Call the Wind Maria. And again there is a backward alchemy, turning folklore into exaggeration...
Afro's statement said, "Project Cambridge and its ill-fated predecessor, Project Camelot, both funded by the United States Department of Offense (sic), represent the transition in U. S. foreign policy from Imperialism to Psycho-Imperialism. They are prototype applications of social science data-gathering and model-building techniques to the Offense Department's 'global mission...
...Sociologist I. L. Horowitz said that Project Camelot's purpose was measuring and forecasting the causes of revolutions and insurgency in underdevolp-areas of the world. It also aimed to find way of climinating the causes, or coping with the revolutions and insurgencies...