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...things have changed," says Flanker Pete Gent of the Dallas Cowboys. "When I joined this club two years ago, nobody did anything but jeer at us. If there was a crowd waiting at the airport when we returned from a game, we figured they had ropes." To day, a huge electric sign in downtown Dallas proclaims, HOME OF THE COW BOYS - WORLD'S FASTEST TEAM, and in the Cotton Bowl last week 80,000 fans turned out to watch their heroes beat the Cleveland Browns 26-14 for their eighth victory of the season (against two losses...
...Such a jeer at the Soviet press is common enough in the West; this time the quip appeared in Soviet Press, a monthly magazine that is circulated largely among Russian newsmen. The criticism had an added impact because the speaker was Ilya Ehrenburg, 75, one of Russia's best-known journalists. Ehrenburg admitted to his interviewer that while he spends more than half an hour a day reading the French newspaper Le Monde, he seldom devotes as much time to any Soviet paper. His explanation was blunt: "The Soviet stories are much more poorly written. Many important events outside...
...Nothing Is the Same." So did Father Groppi. For eleven nights, his youthful band marched in front of Judge Cannon's large brick colonial house, and for eleven nights crowds of whites gathered to jeer. "What are you niggers doing here?" yelled the mob, adding, "Kill! Kill! Kill the jungle bunnies!" while Judge Cannon watched, almost unbelieving, from the inside. "Nothing is the same any more," he said. Soon, eggs and rocks followed the invective, and the number of hecklers rose to 2,000. On the advice of local authorities, Governor Warren Knowles last week sent in 500 National...
Though the surreal James Bond would probably stand up and jeer at such criticism, he might agree with pundits who reason that, in an anxiety-ridden age, it is more fun to laugh at Spectre, Thrush, and ZOWIE than to ponder the threats posed by Mao Tse-tung. The Bondsmen seem far too giddy a crew to inflict any permanent injury on young or old, male or female. As art, the spy spoofs have little value, and they lack even true satirical purpose, or what Critic G. K. Chesterton in A Defence of Nonsense called "a kind of exuberant capering...
...supposed to be preaching against. Taking a Horton Foote novel adapted by Playwright Lillian Hellman, Producer Sam Spiegel (Lawrence of Arabia) hired Director Arthur Penn (The Miracle Worker) to whip up a scathing, lopsided indictment of a small town somewhere in Texas. With Star Marlon Brando as chief jeer-leader, the movie smugly points an accusing finger at all the wrong, wrong deeds done by precisely the right people...