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...easy to see why: the villain of the piece is all too clearly the Franco government. Yet as Jorge Semprun's script makes clear, the revolutionists are not precisely heroes either. In the film's most insightful scene, Diego confronts a group of young incendiaries hell-bent on burning Spain to the ground. Both sides are presented as helpless amputees of history; the old rebel has a past but no future, the terrorists a future but no past. Communication is impossible; experience and extremism meet and pull apart without once having touched...
...Hell-Bent Dilemmas. Amid the rubble of World War II, the Weekly began as one of countless Jewish bulletins providing information on people in refugee camps. As the Jews left Germany, the refugee sheets disappeared-except for one which was taken over by Marx, a German-Jewish journalist who had spent the war in England and had now returned. A combat veteran of World War I and an ardent German nationalist, Marx had a clear goal in mind. "From the first," he said, "I wanted to re-ignite Jewish life in Germany...
...aged. Avoiding general news treated by the rest of the German press, the Weekly concentrated on news of Jews and became a consistent champion of Israel. Above all, the paper has addressed itself to the dilemmas of Jews living in a nation that not so long ago was hell-bent on exterminating them...
...week's end it seemed unlikely that the President would call a post-election special session, mainly in order to put through the tax increase that he is anxious to postpone until after the election, and it was probable that the 89th would somehow charge hell-bent and headlong through most of its remaining business and adjourn around Oct. 20. To that end, the Congress frantically slammed through several major bills last week. Among them...
...white civilization. The Government tried to pressure the Indians into selling out, but failed; then it opened a military campaign against them. Jackson shows that the Indians who jumped Custer in 1876 had not yet lost the Black Hills. They fought simply because Custer with typical recklessness was riding hell-bent to attack them...