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...white man who happened along, so she got off that bus, to be followed by almost all the blacks in Montgomery, Ala. Thus began modern American civil rights legislation. Or did it start instead with Martin Luther King, who saw where boycotting segregated buses might lead, or with Gandhi, whose example taught King the tactics of civil disobedience? Or rather were the civil rights laws of the 1960s passed because of a general and amorphous sense of national shame to which Parks and King served merely as goads? U.S. civil rights legislation mattered very much to Americans; will it have...
...independence for much of what is now known as the Third World was charted by the courage and will of one frail man, Mahatma Gandhi, with his doctrine of nonviolent resistance. He was sadly disillusioned, however, by the savage separation of India and Pakistan, which he proved powerless to prevent. Only five months after India won its independence in 1947, he was killed by a fanatic...
...Gandhi had been lucky in his adversary, for the British, though they imprisoned him, did not silence him. His message spread to the Indian masses and abroad, to touch the world's conscience. How many similar brave defiances, unheard, unchronicled, have taken place in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union itself the world will never know. But sometimes the protests of entire nations do get heard. Revolts and mass demonstrations broke out in East Germany in 1953, in Poland and Hungary in 1956, in Czechoslovakia in 1968, and in Poland again in 1981. Each was crushed. Hungary...
...second decade of this century and the other in 1982. Based on Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's novel of the same title, the film beautifully transcends limitations of time as it alternates between the lives of its two heroines, Olivia in 1923 and the contemporary Anne. Unlike Gandhi, which presented a sprawling panorama of Indian landscape and culture from the perspective of the great leader, Heat and Dust is an essentially private affair. It shows us India through the eyes of two women struggling to come to terms with Indian culture and especially Indian...
...Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1982, and he was Charles Ryder's comically aloof father in TV's Brideshead Revisited. But he was also, to give only a partial list, the anti-Semitic Cambridge don in Chariots of Fire, Lord Irwin in Gandhi, a doge of Venice in NBC's Marco Polo, Albert Speer's father in ABC's Inside the Third Reich, Pope Pius XII in CBS's The Scarlet and the Black, a crooked art dealer in Sphinx, a German scientist in The Formula, and the British censor who prosecuted...