Word: men
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD BUNCH. Director Sam Peckinpah renders a vast canvas of the waning West in this drama of men who insist on living by their own outmoded moral code. The performances are faultless and the film is one of the year's best...
...scholarly values he had practiced all his life, and they shared his concern for objectivity, intellectual honesty, a University unsullied by the outside world, even if they did not share his views about how to preserve (or restore) this vision. He himself always had the generosity to acknowledge that men who were on opposite sides over some issues could nevertheless have common aims, serve the same values, and practice mutual respect...
...shall miss him: there are never enough such men around. We shall miss the way his passion for certain principles never obliterated his compassion for human beings, and the way his all-consuming energy deepened and ripened his judiciousness. As a man, as a colleague, as a scholar, he is irreplaceable. Stanley Hoffmann Professor of Government
...tale rises above the level of a mere adventure story as the author, using interior monologue and flashback, probes the minds and lives of Replogle and at least three other men drawn to the fire and the scene of Replogle's crime. Game Warden Bobby McGill pursues Replogle with the vengeance and self-righteousness of a whore gone straight. He had himself been a famous poacher until he was injured in a fall while trapping beaver illegally; the injury has forced him into honest work and accepting wages from a society that he sees as basically corrupt. Doc Mechling...
Author Shetzline, a onetime Forest Service lookout himself, has the gift of using sometimes lyrical, sometimes colloquial, language to describe the woods, the men, and the fire that consumes both: "Each time the cull deck shifted, tons of fuel would resettle and a hundred dozen sparks would be sucked upwards like the spores of some livid fungus." As his dispirited warriors of the soul wander the fire-blasted countryside, a suspenseful psychological drama is created that subtly expresses the themes of innocence, guilt and the corruption of the individual by society...