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...gunshots and burning vehicles, the bricks and tear-gas canisters, the federal marshals and National Guardsmen and airborne troops confronting the mob. Two people died, and scores were injured. It was the last battle of the Civil War, the last direct constitutional crisis between national and state authority. James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran, was enrolled as an Ole Miss student the next day. As a native Mississippian, I think of the lines of Yeats...
...toward a beautiful wooded terrain. "This was where we dug in," he said. "This was the left flank of our perimeter. We went all the way up to the law school." What impressed him the most, he said, was that the country boys under his command were against everything Meredith was trying to do, yet they were completely loyal to the American flag. He said, tenderly almost, "I guess it must've been the discipline they'd learned in the military...
...WiLliam Cecil Dampier's History of Science. And the Bible. And Fowler's Modern English Usage. Also Spengler's Decline of the West, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams and Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres and Frazer's Golden Bough. And George Meredith's works, especially his Essay on Comedy. And H.G. Wells' Time Machine and The Outline of History and any good history of the U.S. And Cardinal
...necessarily a defect in movies that depend for effectiveness on walloping blows to the audience's emotional solar plexus. Stallone is unabashedly faithful to his character and his friends. The old gang is reassembled. Talia Shire is freshly steadfast and inspirational as Rocky's wife Adrian, Burgess Meredith is back as the wizened trainer Mickey and Burt Young as the earthy brother-in-law Paulie. Carl Weathers reprises his wily Apollo Creed. It is all durable and somehow innocent. There are no crooked managers, no manipulating promoters, no mobsters in this boxing crowd...
...Rocky's dying coach Mickey. Burgess Meredith gives an accomplished, however brief, performance. Perhaps its brevity explains its success. As a character, Mickey, like Adrian, Paul and Balboa, hasn't really changed since Rocky. But because he only appears for a relatively short time, Meredith manages to remind the audience of Mickey's likeability and commitment while avoiding over-kill. And Meredith performs with humor. He trains Rocky in a hotel ballroom, full of posters, balloons and a band that plays Rocky's theme song. Mickey turns and shouts. "Shut up back there. And change your tune." If only...