Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREAT WHITE HOPE is a sprawling semi-documentary that traces the career of the first Negro heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. The play itself is a drama of contrition stirred by the borrowed adrenaline of newspaper headlines, but James Earl Jones, as the brooding, arrogant boxer, commands the stage like an avenging black giant...
...financed primarily by federal and federally-minded (foundation) funds? How does an institution maintain its independence in such a situation? Perhaps alternate sources of money should be located. How bad could it be for the government not to be able to make "efficient" policy decisions? Given a Johnson-Humphrey approach to world affairs, the real need is for intellectual sabotage to the point where making foreign policy is as hopeless as ending the farm surplus problem--and its solution as drastic. Until visionary, or even decent and more humane, people retake the White House and the decision-making nexus...
McGeorge Bundy, former foreign policy aide to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, called last night for an effort of "communication" and "mutual understanding" between the military establishment and the civilian sector of the government...
Steven Imhoff's movie, about a collect phone call to Lyndon Johnson, and Kevin Rafferty's, romantically entitled Balls, were the wildest of the lot. Imhoff's movie sets a sound track of himself making his collect call on top of a mad melee of still photographs and film clips punctuated by blanks on the screen. The film wheels on crazily in visual free association above the voices of the cool boy on the phone, the confused operator, and the indignant presidential receptionist...
Although Morse is known outside of Oregon mainly for his vitreolic attacks on the Johnson administration's war policy, Vietnam is a minor issue here. Packwood has recently emerged as a moderate dove, and while his anti-war credentials don't compare to Morse's that fact isn't enough to build a campaign...