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...couple of days in Bridgeville, Kans., at the home of Malcolm's aunt (Deborah Kerr). Rettig beds the aunt, then commits suicide during a particularly difficult stunt. As a memorial to Rettig, Malcolm attempts the same reckless leap. What he discovers about courage and his own manhood should have been the core of the story; unhappily, the film is too oblique for its own good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Conjugation of Courage | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...season, and Replogle has been a dutiful Government employee. But he sees himself as "a punk" and a sucker who has never got anything from a society filled with takers. Near by, the first flames of the fire flicker. Suddenly, he feels a compulsion to prove his manhood by defying the law and packing out 700 Ibs. of poached elk meat, despite or perhaps inspired by the fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dispirited Warriors | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

Irrelevant Heaven. Not surprisingly, efforts to establish a spiritual underpinning for black-church militancy have strong political overtones. The Atlanta statement, for example, closed with Eldridge Cleaver's belligerent manifesto: "We shall have our manhood. Or the earth will be leveled by our efforts to gain it." It spoke of a "theology of black liberation, the affirmation of black humanity that emancipates black people from white racism, thus providing authentic freedom for both white and black people." The 16 scholars implicitly endorsed James Forman's reparations demand on white churches (TIME, May 16) by recalling St. Luke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: In Search of a Black Christianity | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...bank instead of a chicken coop we can honestly claim to be emancipated." The speaker is a character in this flawed but forceful first novel. The scene is a Southern city in the 1930s. For the Negroes who dwell there in remorseless squalor, a measure of freedom and manhood can be earned only by breaking the white man's law. For a bright, ambitious Negro, the best way to prosperity is not through business or the professions but in the illicit sporting life: gambling and the rackets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Taken for Granite | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...didn't have student revolts before is partly because only those went to college who wanted to be educated, and partly because those students who had to put themselves through school, by the very fact that they could do that, of their own strengths, could prove their early manhood -- at least to some degree...

Author: By Some CONCERNED Harvard parents, | Title: A PSYCHOLOGIST'S VIEW | 5/28/1969 | See Source »

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