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...company of The Drunkard, with galvanic gestures and frozen speech patterns. The Human Beings, by contrast, are a people of dignity and variety. Among them are the homosexual Little Horse; the contrary Younger Bear, who says "hello" for "goodbye" and bathes in dirt instead of water; and the true lodestar of the film, Old Lodge Skins (played by Chief Dan George...
...murderer by a convenient accident. Are villains too often betes noiresl The driver is a child-beating, wife-torturing, mistress-abusing salaud. Does the pursuer fall in love with his quarry-as Belmondo did with Deneuve in Mississippi Mermaid! The villain's mistress (Caroline Cellier) is a lodestar of beauty and melancholia. Naturally, Charles is smitten...
...little to choose from among the three candidates on fundamental issues, Humphrey by his tone and his loyalty to the Administration finds himself the sudden centrist; able to seek a Democratic coalition potentially as broad as F.D.R.'s. He is doing so, moreover, without any disavowal of the libertarian lodestar that led him into politics in the first place. "The nation needs to be calmed and unified," he says. "It needs steady social progress with a minimum of disorder. I offer leadership based not just on idealism but on a pragmatic approach to government. I offer the capacity to blend...
...Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa., where he was elected class president and outstanding student, he discovered the works of Hegel and Kant. Here also he was exposed to the writings of Mohandas Gandhi, whose mystic faith in nonviolent protest became King's lodestar. "From my background," he said, "I gained my regulating Christian ideals. From Gandhi I learned my operational technique." Indeed, Gandhi's word for his doctrine, satyagraha, becomes in translation King's slogan, "soul force...
Alabama's Governor George Wallace flew into Indianapolis last week in a state-owned Lockheed Lodestar deco rated with a Confederate flag and the slogan STAND UP FOR AMERICA. He had, he said, come to run against Democratic Governor Matthew Welsh "because I want to let the people have an effective way of opposing some of the trends going on in Washington." For Welsh, who is a favorite-son stand-in for President Johnson in Indiana's May 5th presidential primary, Wallace had only kind words. "I have the highest regard for Governor Welsh," he allowed...