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...PAUL McHARNESs, O.S.B. Marvin...
Motown Beatitudes After listening to the Motown album What's Going On, the Rev. Jesse Jackson informed its creator, Soul Crooner Marvin Gaye, that he was as much a minister as any man in any pulpit. Gaye does not see himself in quite that way, though he does admit to a certain "in" with the Almighty. "God and I travel together with righteousness and goodness. If people want to tag along, they can." While such words would sound intolerably conceited from any other pop star, they come inoffensively from Gaye. Part mystic, part pentecostal fundamentalist, part socially aware ghetto...
...other men listed by the Justice as possible candidates are: Marvin Bernstein, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton; Wilbur Cohen, former Secretary of HEW; Joseph Kauffman, former dean of students at Brandeis; Leo Levin, vice-president of the University of Pennsylvania; and Herman Stein, provost of Western Reserve College...
...long as the inmates held any hostages, officials were in an impossible position, they say. Moreover, dealing with prisoners in this situation only encourages more such seizures. Some uprisings have been quelled when authorities simply refused to negotiate with inmates until hostages were released. Last February, Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel rushed to a state prison where inmates had seized two guards and threatened to kill them. He faced the rebels and said: "We've shown our good faith by coming here; now you show your good faith by releasing them. If you don't, I'm leaving." After 20 minutes...
Surprisingly for a film biography of a man who is still alive (the real Knievel performed in Madison Square Garden a month ago), the hero is portrayed as an egomaniac, a compulsive worrier and a shameless searcher after publicity. Marvin Chomsky's direction is pedestrian, but the script (by Alan Caillou, John Milius and Pat Williams) has some nice moments of quirky comedy, as when a fissure opens in the earth and a rather large automobile disappears without a trace. The film is good-naturedly skeptical and occasionally satiric about Knievel's exploits-in marked and welcome relief...