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...blood pressure and visceral reactions, then they begin showing him a movie. The film--brilliantly done--is like the inside of George Rockwall's (former head of American Nazi Party) mind. Quick-cutting from the flag to a domineering father to bullets, to a penis, to Klu Klux Kian cross-burning, back to a church, to big artillery, back to mother, now crying, to the president, and so on... The Wind and the Lion is a stop away from this, with its approval of Teddy Rooseveit's lingoistic Wipe-am-out mentality, people going around constantly warning the going around...
...students, members of the Organization for the Solidarity of Third World Students, said they objected specifically to Griffith's patronizing attitude toward blacks under Reconstruction and his glorification of the Ku Klux Klan, arguing that by presenting a racist film as entertainment the Adams House film society at least tacitly sanctioned the film's racism. They said the film and others like it should only be shown in a proper forum, one that would allow for an explanation of the history of the period and the film as well as a discussion of the issues of racism and freedom...
...showing of "Birth of a Nation" was stopped when 50 students demanded that the film not be shown, saying they objected to its treatment of blacks and glorification of the Ku Klux Klan...
...response followed an Adams House protest last Saturday night by 50 students who objected to the film's being shown because of its treatment of blacks and its glorification of the Ku Klux Klan...
Fifty of the organization's supporters stopped the showing of the film in Adams House dining hall Saturday night, saying they objected to its treatment of blacks and glorification of the Ku Klux Klan...