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...many elements familiar to the fan of the American horse opera. There is the wandering, homeless hero, the isolated town being destroyed by rival factions, a beautiful woman in distress and finally, a showdown--Japanese style. However, Yojimbo goes beyond all this and so avoids the mediocrity of a morass of cliches. Akira Kurosawa, the director, who focused world attention on Japanese cinema with Rashoman and Seven Samurai, succeeds in Yojimbo without resorting to either didacticism or melodrama. Violence accompanies comedy and through this incongruity. Kurosawa states that even in its evilest moments, the human animal is funny. Perhaps, Kurosawa...
...acclaimed role in Carnal Knowledge as a result). Nor was 32-year old Gary Lockwood entirely credible as a Harvard SDS leader. "Jesus, if they hadn't cast it from a geriatric ward we'd have had half a chance." As it was the film got mired in a morass of Hollywoodism. "But I got to meet Quinn, who is a real original and I admire Kramer though our bomb was of the multi-megaton variety...
...Harvard, the strike and antiwar actions have veered from the central issue of the Indochina war. In fact, Nixon's bombing of the North has been frequently neglected, lost in a morass of university-oriented issues. The strike as it is currently constituted should end. There is no real base of student support for its continuation. But we should go on working in whatever ways possible to end America's reign of terror in Southeast Asia. Students should return to class, but should be prepared to disrupt again their normal schedules and lend support to specific demonstrations of antiwar sentiment...
Should the Roman Catholic Church have a constitution? It has existed without one for more than 19 centuries-unless one considers the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the commission to teach that Gospel a constitution. Of course the church has had rules and laws aplenty, an accumulating and confusing morass of canons that were not even codified until 1918. That code is now undergoing a massive revision, and a bloc within the Vatican is asking for a kind of preamble to it that would become a new "fundamental law" for the church-one to which all canon law would have...
...Donaldson case, set against the background of the nation's most enervating war, seems likely to set lifelong comrades-in-arms against one another in the Pentagon. In all the legal and moral morass, Donaldson may never be able to provide his fellow Army officers with a satisfactory answer to one nagging question: What was a brigade commander doing charging about the countryside in a helicopter during battle, pumping at fleeing figures with...