Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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King of Hearts. After roughly six months of pretending to be a real movie theater, the Central Cinema appears to have give up the ghost and brought back the King of Hearts for an encore to its five year run. After all, there's a new class of freshmen all over Boston that can be convinced that merely because a film has run for five years it must be ineffably beautiful and sensitive, or at the very least, that they must see it to find out. King of Hearts isn't actually a bad film--you wouldn't actually turn...
More persistent than Banquo's ghost or a Brittanica salesman, the phenomenon of the Hollywood Ten trial, and the terrible trouble people with a past encountered in the 1940s and '50s, still dogs us almost thirty years after it started. Each time it shows up it invokes terrible bitterness that doesn't seem to subside with time. Even the week before last The New York Times devoted a series of spreads to a bout between two old birds (Lillian Hellman and Diana Trilling) slugging it out for whatever audience still wants to know who acted badly during the bad times...
...Ghosts and Gods. More than 100 adventure tour packagers are now operating in the U.S., competing for a clientele that numbers in the hundreds of thousands. They offer mountain-climbing tours of the Himalayas, canoe expeditions down the Amazon, hang-gliding excursions in the U.S. Southwest, ghost-hunting trips through haunted English castles, and archeological tours from the Dead Sea to Easter Island...
There are some satisfactory reasons for going to war. Self-defense - and even survival - are the most compelling. But religion, with its ancient, emotional connotations, shows up in these wars like a tribal ghost of Hamlet's father, urging revenge. Religion, especially when it blends with the secular religion of nationalism, fetches back to timeless grievances and can find in them that nasty, righteous "Gott mil Uns" that wants no truck with the enterprise of peace - which in this world is always temporal and temporary...
Looking ahead to the fall, something else Carter needs is to carry Illinois. Every election since 1916 has found that state on the winning side, and Daley's superhuman efforts to put Illinois in Kennedy's column proved decisive in 1960 (to the chagrin of Republicans suspicious of "ghost voting" illegalities). Ford is very strong in Illinois--besides Michigan it was his most significant win--so if Carter expects to come away with those 25 electoral votes, he'll need the Mayor's whole-hearted support...