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Finally, a word about the caliber of leadership among African nationalist movements. Professor Rogers suggests that Guinea-Bissau alone has an able leadership ready to take over the reins of government and implies that Lisbon is in a position to groom leaders for both Mozambique and Angola. Apart from the fact that Lisbon has lost the colonial prerogative to decide "when the native is ready for independence," the fact of the matter is that thirteen years of fighting have produced a more seasoned leadership than four hundred years of Portuguese colonialism could master. In my opinion such leaders as Samora...
Even Speiser's hilarious Brucean renderings of a man waking up with an erection and spraying the bathroom walls as he relieves himself and of a groom overwhelmed and reeling at the left-over odor of his own Caelia don't jolt the way they used to. In Bruce's mind the fear of arrest and exposure had mingled with excretory fantasies and the irrational guilt of old-fashioned Jewish toilet training with its terrifying threats--"He made kaka? All right, we'll get a policeman!" So you have to alert your "liberated" psyche against this sense of easy enjoyment...
...proceedings yielded mainly dross in an atmosphere heavy with cannabis. Among the few taking matters seriously was the groom's mother, Alpha Stewart, 57, who gave her maternal blessing. "If this couple can live 40 years married as my husband and I have lived, well, they can make it if they try," she declared. There were those in the audience who thought she was perhaps referring to Sly's former reputation for failing to fulfill engagements. Then she introduced Family Friend Bishop B.R. Stewart of the Church of God in Christ, who had replaced, at her insistence...
...Mary Pitcairn Davis, 53, widow of Wendell Davis, Manhattan attorney and Harvard Law School classmate of Keating's; he for the second time, she for the third; in Princeton, N.J. Henry Kissinger's recent Middle East marathon forced repeated postponements of the wedding by keeping the groom glued to his diplomatic post...
...almost grateful for this opportunity to muse once again over the asininity of the rating system, since the rest of this predictable slice of frontier life (the setting is California's Big Sur country) offers almost nothing to think about. Hannah's response to her groom's welcome is to teach him table manners. He makes some progress toward civility, but he keeps getting distracted. Late in the film he is still capable of driving a herd of cattle through her vegetable garden purely as an exercise in cussedness...