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...problem is not protest as such. In some ways, it can be considered encouraging that more and more young Americans refuse to accept any disparity between U.S. ideals and U.S. realities. There is something gallant about a generation that questions a doubtful war, racial injustice, poverty amid plenty and ecological destruction. But the danger is that the reckless invocations of revolution and violence will defeat the very reforms that the most thoughtful of the protesters desire...
DEAR WORLD. The only saving grace about this musical adaptation of Jean Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot is a gallant performance by Angela Lansbury...
...when it hit an icy patch on the road. The car slammed into a lane divider, then caromed across the highway and pounded into a wall overlooking a 200-ft. ravine. Just before the crash, the front-seat passenger, Film Director Franco Zeffirelli, flung out his arm in a gallant gesture toward the driver. "My one thought was to save her face," he said later. As it turned out, Driver Gina Lollobrigida picked up no more than a bruise on the left cheekbone of her pretty face. But a broken kneecap required two operations-one to repair the fracture...
Some U.S. politicians have discovered that a better way is to let hecklers hang themselves with their own words. When Robert Kennedy visited Tokyo's Waseda University in 1962, he made a gallant attempt to quiet an anti-American mob by inviting the noisiest of the hecklers to share the microphone. Edmund Muskie, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, used the same tactic this year with more success. And at a rally last week, Nixon made the best of a sticky situation by giving opponents an opportunity to criticize without heckling. He allowed 1,200 Syracuse University students to sing...
...fight wars as though they were on parade will produce horrendous disasters, but through it all they retain a certain character, and, one feels, the potential for charity. As Nolan unknowingly predicts before leaving England, the campaign in the Crimea would mark not only the last of the gallant wars, but the first of the modern ones. When the Charge is over, the viewer does not feel he will miss the gallantry, but we know already how much worse modernity will prove...