Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haggard's Mama's Hungry Eyes and Okie from Muskogee locate themselves in the center of this ethic, songs he sings without a breath of irony or wavering self-consciousness. His bearing, mannerisms, even Haggard's cocky smile reflect the poor southern white's defiant pride. Constantly faced with social and historical pressures that threaten his social position, the country music has been able to confer on its audience a heroic dimension missing in their lives and politics...
...these colleges were typically from the black middle class. Generally speaking they saw no conflict between themselves and the institutions in which they were enrolled or with the aspirations of the other (white) students. Cushioned from the worst excesses of racism, they adopted and even embellished upon the Protestant ethic...
Ending with a triple marriage hard on the heels of a quadruple murder, the film never seems absurd. It is to a large degree an accurate indicator of a new American ethic, an ethic that makes it altogether conceivable that a magazine like Playboy in the near future will have pictoral specials for homosexuals. And like Playboy Meyer has left raunchy sexploitation in favor of sexual spectaculars which focus not on the content and images of sex but their variegated forms...
...Russ Meyer is facile in the same way Billy Graham's world is facile. When Graham spoke to the Honor America Day crowd they cheered not for the old lies about America but Graham's unabashed earnestness. Similarly Meyer's new film reveals his obstinate faith in an ethic no more applicable today than tufted furniture and gas chandeliers. If all along the fire-breathing amazons of his earlier films have wanted the kind of suburban respectability Meyer poses as an ideal, then we have been badly mislead. Good pornography, and there is such a thing as good pornography, will...
...food. In Strawberry Statement one of the demands is that the university not expand so that the park (playground) will be preserved "for the kids." Just before the bust the students form concentric circles in the gymnasium and sing "Give Peace A Chance." Such extensions of the Judeo-Christian ethic prevent the radicals from offending the market...