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...needs drastic surgery. "We are not trying so much to do social work," Mother Teresa explains, "as to live out that life of love, of compassion, that God has for his people." The poor, she says, suffer even more from rejection than material want. "If we didn't discard them they would not be poor. An alcoholic in Australia told me that when he is walking along the street he hears the footsteps of everyone coming toward him or passing him becoming faster. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty...
When caught later, Oswald carried the revolver that ballistics tests showed had fired the four cartridge cases found in a yard near Tippit's body. A witness saw Oswald discard the empty shells there. Six witnesses identified Oswald as the gunman they saw either at the Tippit murder scene or fleeing...
...couple of weeks ago in New York., he was remembered largely for his characteristically bad Zabriskie Point, instead of for the few artistically successful movies he had turned out before. The film critics had a lot of fun with that one; after all, what is better for dicing and discard than an ambitious, extravagant failure? If it is flamboyant enough, as was Zabriskie Point, it lends itself to equally flamboyant massacre. A really loud, silly disaster (one may remember John Bookman's Zardoz) by a minor (the microscope please) talent gives itself out to months of laughter and derisions simply...
...work he demands. Those who don't may end up giggling all through the movie, through its empty spots, through its stretches of desert. Those who do will be all the more rewarded by the fact that The Passenger doesn't come wrapped, bowed and ready for easy discard...
...American government should in thinking about ways to help Vietnam discard the idea that what is happening there now is a tragedy or that the people of Vietnam need protection from communism. Mass evacuations of orphans--who would probably be cared for by the NLF better than they are by the publicity conscious government and of civilians who the NLF appears to have no intention of harming are not the answer. The United States has brought have and destruction to Vietnam and it owes the nation a tremendous debt--and-the best way to repay that debt is to accept...