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...KENNETH S. JONES Faith United Methodist Church Rockville, Md. P.S. I am a pilot...
...largely personal in southern Louisiana, and on that score Watkins is a formidable opponent. He is a French Catholic whose roots reach back 150 years in his predominantly French Catholic district; his manner, relaxed and amiable, appeals to the Cajun voters. Treen, a solemn and somewhat humorless Methodist, is counting on Nixon's coattails...
...result is the exhaustive effort of a New York-intellectual brain with an obvious leftward slant trying to comprehend the phenomenon of a Methodist from South Dakota and a shrewd dealer of the Wad running against each other for President. Mailer remains throughout skeptical, pedantic, perceptive, and, in spite of himself, expressive of his admiration for all characters in the principled or unprincipled pursuit of their goals...
...Richard Nixon is indeed less compassionate than George McGovern. it is not because he was raised a Quaker rather than a Methodist. Instead, one might say it is because his early religious education did not take...
...gets as far as St. Joseph before throwing in with a band of rapscallions on their way West. Drew takes overbearing pride in being an upright Methodist. He struggles to stay on the straight and narrow as his cronies teach him to lie, to steal, to live by his wits and, those failing, his gun. His principles are most frequently mocked and compromised by the gang leader (Jeff Bridges), with whom he strikes up the kind of mutually antagonistic friendship often found in such films of Howard Hawks as Rio Bravo and Red River. Each member of the gang...