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...Yippie Capitalist...
...continue to take ex-Yippie Jerry Rubin with a grain of salt [Aug. 11]. His slogan of the '60s, "Never trust anyone over 30," still holds. Because Mr. Rubin has reached that ripe old age we can almost understand his transformation into a greedy capitalist...
...class Cubans who arrived with some money and marketable craft or professional skills, and they came in family groups. The new refugees are predominantly penniless workers. A disproportionate number are single young men who grew up under a Communist system and have no idea of what life in a capitalist democracy is like. Though the established Cubans have been generous with donations of food, clothing and money, and have taken refugees into their homes, many are as apprehensive as their Anglo and black neighbors about the newcomers. Says Insurance Executive Leslie Pantin: "The undesirables are hurting the Cuban image...
...hosts were chastened, they were not letting on. Indeed, most ordinary Soviets hardly connected the boycott with Afghanistan; it was easier to blame it on anti-Soviet hysteria in the capitalist camp. "I wonder if Carter watched the opening ceremony," said one elderly housewife. "If he did, he must have been sorry not to be able to see it all. The poor Americans." Angered that Britain had only one marcher in the opening parade, a Soviet television announcer told viewers: "There is the clumsy plot... against the traditions of the Olympic movement...
...this slapdash indictment of the American system that differentiates these first "summer" films of the eighties from movies of other summers. Neither of these films has a political consciousness to speak of, and both are only mildly--and spottily--entertaining. But each takes a stab at the American capitalist system and the Protestant ethic of hard work and honesty. And in each film, the American way of life takes a beating, handily defeated by chicanery, theft and vice...