Word: leper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When she was 68, Widow Carter joined the Peace Corps and requested a challenging post. She was sent to a small town in India, where she had the frustrating task of encouraging birth control. She encountered every imaginable disease. Stifling her revulsion, she nursed one young leper back to health. When she returned home after two years, she was exhausted and had lost 26 pounds. But, as Jimmy remarks, "a major portion of her heart is still in India...
...being discriminated against by being invited there. In those days the capitalists never missed a chance to embarrass or offend the Soviet Union. I was afraid maybe this Camp David was the same sort of place where people who were mistrusted could be kept in quarantine, like a leper colony...
Filmed in 1970, The All-American Boy is being released after a great deal of infighting during which it acquired a leper-like reputation in the trade. The published screenplay (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $6.50) disclosed that, fully realized, the film would have been considerably longer and rather less oblique. Vic would have been blessed and cursed by occasional shafts of self-knowledge. As it is, Voight's performance consists of careful character shadings that can only add tone to a silhouette. In more concise roles, the supporting performances are sharper. Carol Androsky as Vic's sister...
...humiliating and some victorious, he vanquishes his oppressor, the prototypical cad, Flashman. Flashman, the school bully, was the subject of a Howard Hughes-like book of biography a few years ago, and he has endured at least as well as has Tom Brown himself as a model Victorian social leper...
Rusty Calley has evoked unpleasant responses from almost all elements of American society: professional members of the silent majority have organized to make him a hero, professional liberals have propagandized to turn him into a leper, the military has contrived to blame him for conceiving, organizing, and carrying out the assault on My Lai 4 almost single-handedly, the President has intervened to make political...