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...musical presents a group of West German nuns relocated in the Southwestern U.S. They are trying to minister to Mexicans and Indians under the flinty, egocentric but spiritually incandescent will of their superior, Mother Maria (Shirley Booth). Into their midst comes a Negro on the lam, Homer Smith (Al Freeman Jr.). It is Mother Maria's conviction that Homer is the chosen instrument of God for building a chapel in their faith-parched wilderness. Naturally, he builds it. So much for suspense...
Shirley Booth and Al Freeman Jr. summon up considerable professional zest, and contrive to pour the coagulated treacle of Leonard Spigelgass's lines as if it were liquid gold. One may wish them better luck next time. Better sense they should have already...
Blacks in Dorchester complain of police harassment. Mark Freeman, a high school junior, points at policemen parking in front of Youth, Inc., a social service agency; the police are making their daily visit. "I want to destroy all the stereotypes in the minds of people like those cops, who think we're all basketball players or thieves," he says. Robert Forts, black executive director of the Roxbury Federation of Neighborhood Centers, says mockingly: "Once Paul Revere rode through the streets to proclaim that the British were coming. Now whites run through the streets shouting, 'The niggers are coming...
...Harvard came out with a 11-3 triumph, and as Skip Freeman said after the game, the wagon started to roll. Or so it seemed...
...Holworthy spokesmen, Mike Freeman and Mike Murr, decided after the game that Fred Jewett should break training and give the victors a beer party...