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...weapon everyone is pointing at here is politics, specifically left-wing popular-front politics in the 1940s. The script by Playwright Arthur Laurents (Time of the Cuckoo) posits an improbable, if not preposterous relationship between a WASP jock-frat man (Robert Redford), who is, on the side, an incredibly sensitive writer, and a Jewish Stalinist campus radical (Barbra Streisand), who is, on the side, a novice earth mother. A great deal of pushing and hauling gets them from college to marriage to Hollywood in time for the anti-Red witch hunts. The purpose, one imagines, was to have the apolitical...
...FIVE lives that King has chosen to review in detail in his book illustrate his conclusions well, closely reflecting the pattern of gradualism which conforms to the continuity model. He has assembled a familiar cast of Harvard characters: a small-town jock, a grind, an intellectual, a writer, a dilettante. They are easily recognizable, if sometimes boring...
...killed in Clarksville, Pa., that December night in 1969 was Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski, 59, a tough, gravel-voiced man who had been bold enough to challenge the rule of United Mine Workers President W.A. ("Tony") Boyle. He had charged that Boyle was ignoring miners' health and safety problems, that he had committed fraud and embezzlement, and that he ran "the most notoriously dictatorial labor union in America." The miners had listened favorably to Yablonski's call for reform -and then, three weeks before the murders, they had re-elected Boyle by a margin of nearly...
...became president in 1963, and soon had to confront the fact that the U.M.W.'s fortunes had declined with the lessening demand for coal. The membership was down from 600,000 in Lewis' heyday to around 200,000, the locals were grumbling, and out in western Pennsylvania Jock Yablonski was calling for Boyle's scalp...
When King said, "I don't care if you show up in a jock strap," Riggs had pictures made of himself clad only in a supporter. If it has contributed nothing substantial to the history of sexism in the '70s, the Riggs-King repartee has at least lent some much-needed humor. Billie Jean cannot resist getting into the spirit occasionally. She calls him "Roberta" and mocks his duck-footed waddle. "I'm pigeon-toed," she says, "so maybe this match should be billed as the duck v. the pigeon...