Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. High camp comes artfully close to original Americana in this yarn of a sassy 14-year-old Arkansan heroine who avenged the murder of her daddy back in the 1870s...
...There was a brief flurry, centering around Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd's bill to ban the mail-order sale of all guns, but as soon as the N.R.A. started moving, Congress stopped. Its paralysis persisted after last April's slaying of Martin Luther King. Robert Kennedy's murder in Los Angeles brought an appeal from the President for an end to the "insane traffic" in guns, but Congress responded by completing action on a measure so toothless?it provides for little more than a ban on mail-order handguns?as to please even the N.R.A. Johnson scorned it as "watered...
...assemble his lethal armory despite strict gun controls. Sirhan Sirhan violated three California laws in merely possessing the pistol he used to kill Bobby Kennedy, but he still had the weapon. On the other hand, reasonable laws might have prevented Lee Harvey Oswald from committing what Lyndon Johnson called "murder by mail order"; Oswald would also probably have been refused a gun permit because of his background...
Ordered Normality. That the U.S. is tortured cannot be denied. That it is gravely sick is too simplistic a view. After the first spastic reaction to the Kennedy murder (see PRESS), most commentators rejected a blanket diagnosis of disease while at the same time refusing to completely absolve U.S. society and civilization for what had happened. John Kenneth Galbraith, no Pollyanna when it comes to national flaws, observed last week that "the greater danger in our day than violence is unfocused selfcriticism. Nothing so serves as an excuse from reality...
...anti-western in the best tradition of Cat Ballou and the Ballad of Dingus Magee. For openers, his hero is a heroine: Mattie Ross, a sassy, 14-year-old Arkansan whose chief protective girdle is a dry Bible-belt faith, and who is out to avenge the murder of her daddy back in the 1870s...