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...begins the recent Beatles' song Let It Be. For two months, as a single, it has floated high on the Top 40 charts, even though its message is mystic and ambiguous. "Let it be," for example, can be taken as an invocation to God to "let there be" an answer. Or simply as the answer itself: "Stay cool." No matter. As sturdy, unadorned and honest as a country church, Let It Be is one of the most moving pop songs of this or any other year...
...right-winger. I do not have a uniform and rifle and do not attend patriotic-oriented meetings. While, like most average Americans, I am not a superpatriot or a mystic idolator of our Stars and Stripes, I do not enjoy seeing it trampled under the sweaty feet of a professional anarchist who seems to hate himself as much as he does his country...
...underground press serves in many capacities. It incorporates the aesthetic and mystic potential of a flowering "hippie" civilization. It saves its readers from a dependence on the often depressively alien news biases of the establishment media, so that radicals can keep their ranks together with the stimulation of rhetoric and exhortation. And ever since the creation of the Liberation News Service in 1967, the Movement press has shown increasing signs of permanency and coordination...
...saved great chunks of their conversation in an almost suicidal attempt to remain faithful to the book. Unfortunately, his fidelity goes unrewarded. One never really quite believes the way Lawrence manipulates dialogue for his own didactic purposes. In the novel that doesn't really matter, because in his semi-mystic descriptions of nature, his hypersymbolic dramatic vignettes, his sometimes fumbling but mostly honest attempts to define sexuality, Lawrence gives us so much else to bolster his argument. His dialogue is only a part of a most imposing whole, and so we forgive it its deficiencies. So when Kramer's screenplay...
...relationship between Birken and Gerald should also prove something of a stumbling block for movie audiences just learning to accept male homosexuality as a valid means of exploring love and sex. Birken's desire to achieve a mystic yet sensual union with another man must be seen in reaction to his fears of Hermione and Ursula. Birken hates women for their sex at the same time as he is drawn to them; he associates the demands of the two women with those of motherhood and death, forces that limit and frustrate his lofty aspirations for freedom. But since the movie...