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With the blessings of California's Episcopal Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, a "Hiroshima Peace Torch" began a cross-country migration from San Francisco to Washington. Relay runners will carry the torch, which was ignited last month in Japan and carries fragments of U.S. anti-personnel bombs in its butt...
...students listened to records or watched movies that acquainted them with the settings of such works as The Diary of a Young Girl, Hiroshima, Treasure Island and the Bible's Book of Esther. Then they read the books, discussed them, wrote papers about them, acted out some of the roles, prepared newspapers based on the stories. At the end of the project, compared with kids in regular classes, they showed superior ability in reading comprehension, understanding words, effective written expression. They did just as well as the regular students in grammar and spelling...
...only problem the project leaders encountered with the technique was the reaction of fretful parents. Some objected to the "antiwar tone" and "unpatriotism" of Hiroshima, the mention of menstruation in The Diary of a Young Girl. But such niceties failed to bother the kids. More important to them was the discovery that a good book can be fascinating-even if it is educational...
...First Cry owes much to the work of Alain Resnais. In such films as Hiroshima Mon Amour and La Guerre Est Finie, Resnais flashed back and forth between present and past, giving sense impressions that made the pictures considerably more than the sum of their parts. Jaromil Jireš, 31, who made The First Cry three years ago, tries the same technique with moderately interesting results. A young woman is awakened by labor pains. She arouses her husband (Josef Abrhám) and begins to recall their first meeting, the affair that followed, the marriage. Abrhám, a television...
...home viewing), and won an Oscar as the year's best feature documentary. For the most part, Watkins plays his horror story straight and as close to reality as possible: scenes showing the collapse of order, for instance, are based on the record of civilian be havior at Hiroshima, Dresden and other cities devastated during World War II. Sometimes, though, Watkins' passion for peace leads him into moments of maudlin melodramatics. At film's end, the sound track unconvincingly takes the press and television to task for supposedly refusing to discuss the possibilities of nuclear...