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...with the Devils. Nothing was sacred. Red Guards plastered the walls of the Sacred Heart Convent, the leading school in Peking for the children of foreign diplomats, with posters reading GET OUT, FOREIGN DEVILS! and suspended classes. Five of the Roman Catholic nuns were forced to sit in a gutter while the Guards publicly berated them. Guards also stormed Peking's few remaining Christian churches, defacing the walls, and replacing religious statues with busts...
...plot is another sack of potatoes, however. The heroine (Sarah Miles) is a Hibernian Orphan Annie who in rapid succession sees the young man she loves run away to sea, gets pregnant by a beastly Britisher, suffers a miscarriage in a London gutter, hurries home to find the young man she loves engaged to another girl, winds up on Christmas morning bravely smiling through tears. Her tears fall in such torrents, in fact, that viewers may wonder why the camera was not equipped with windshield wipers. They may also wonder how Director Desmond Davis and Novelist-Scriptwriter O'Brien...
...LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theater in Harlem was not organized, as Shriver seems to wish, to bring white culture to the black man, but to allow the black man to express himself within his own culture. So Jones's plays speak in "language of the gutter." Is not Harlem just one giant gutter? What language should he use? And he writes "vile racist plays." Is not Harlem life centered around vile racism? Should Jones write Broadway musicals...
...Gutter Language. Whether the poverty program burnishes or tarnishes Shriver's reputation remains to be seen. A recent poll commissioned by the G.O.P. National Committee shows that supporters of the program increased from 34% to 48% in the past year, while the skeptics held steady at 36%. Thus, barring a major scandal, it seems unlikely that Republicans at the national level will question the continuation of the poverty program in the fall campaign. They are certain to criticize its failures and question its administration...
...program at a time. But there was great need." Among other blunders for which he was blamed was a $40,000 grant last summer to Playwright LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theater in Harlem to produce, as Shriver later admitted, "vile racist plays in language of the gutter...