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...British Labor Party in 1948, when the center was founded with anthropologist and Freudian Clyde Kluckhohn as its first director. (Even then, Ulam says now, the center was sensitive to charges that it was a Cold War front for U.S. imperialism. Thus, Kluckhohn--an expert on the Navajo Indians--was apparently chosen in part because he seemed so utterly non-political...
Perry finds some arresting images to underscore his theme. Beautiful Navajo rugs are spread out for an airing under the big sky as a cowboy works them over with a weirdly out-of-place vacuum cleaner; a brand-new Lincoln auto is pumped full of slugs from an ancient buffalo rifle. But Perry appears to distrust his taste for surrealism and settles too often for the merely slick. Similarly, McGuane, a highly regarded young novelist, tells us too little about the characters in this original screenplay. Rancho Deluxe might have been a film of considerable originality, something on the order...
...invited by Mao Tse-tung's government to lead a delegation of American women on a tour of Chi na. Although MacLaine was photo graphed in a bell-bottomed Mao outfit, her group could hardly be called rad ical chic. Among others it included a Puerto Rican, a Navajo, a black civil rights worker from Mississippi, a white George Wallace supporter from Texas, a Republican, a psychologist and a 12-year-old girl. There was also a four-woman camera crew who filmed a rec ord of the trip to produce a 74-minute documentary entitled The Other Half...
...years ago, the Navajo reservation in Arizona where Sue Williams lives had no lights and no paved streets, and people got around by horse and wagon. Now, she says, things are a lot better--nearly everyone has a pick-up truck and some new houses have been built...
...terms of education, the Navajo reservation is still one of the most backward in the country. "Ours is the first generation to have over 50 per cent with an eighth grade education," she says, emphasizing the figures, pausing to let their meaning sink in. "Ninety per cent of the students in my high school barely had a sixth grade reading level. Maybe 4 per cent went to college...