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...school. One member of the Virginia House of Delegates called for the impeachment of Merhige as a "judicial pirate." Last week both the House of Delegates and the state senate passed overwhelmingly a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment prohibiting busing to achieve racial balance. The conservative Richmond Times-Dispatch ran a series of antibusing editorials and printed angry letters decrying the "puppet courts throughout America" and the "Communist trend overtaking the nation." Raymond Boone, editor of the Richmond Afro-American, made it plain that the city's blacks consider the antibusing factions segregationist. "This will determine whether democracy...
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Ultimately The Cowboys suggests that you are not a man until you have murdered. These children dispatch Dern in an act of outright sadism all the more chilling for its apparent dispassion. Yet Rydell and the screenwriters seem to be congratulating them on their new-found machismo. The Cowboys is no investigation of the inherent evil of the young, like Richard Hughes' A High Wind in Jamaica. Nor does it have the awful irony of Peckinpah's Straw Dogs (TIME, Dec. 20), in which heroism turned into savagery. Here savagery is seen as heroism...
...nauseating mixture of vacuous sociological theories," wrote the Richmond Times-Dispatch...