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...would much rather have written the best song of a nation than its noblest epic." So said Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th century American poet, teller of horror tales and inventor of the detective story. A vulnerable sort, tormented by melancholy and eventually by drink, he was infatuated with the mystery and dramatic power of music. Years after his death in 1849, composers-Sousa, Rachmaninoff, Debussy-found themselves equally fascinated by the music of his words...
...think reporters trying to identify other reporters' sources is the noblest kind of journalism...
THEIR MISSION is most successful at its most narrowly construed, for their picture of the family rings absolutely true. It explains as well as could be explained how a group of people could, out of motives that were to them of the noblest quality, do things that were sometimes good and often bad. It also explains why it took four generations for the deeper questions to sink through the thick layers of pride and business and charity...
Beginning with the noblest of motives-examination of the roots and consequences of the Viet Nam War-this vigorous, chaotic documentary manipulates time for its own ends. The bombing of Haiphong harbor, John Foster Dulles' domino theory, J. Edgar Hoover's fears of "common-ists," a brutal football game, '40s war movies-all flow back and forth like sand in an hourglass. The confusion is deliberate. Hearts and Minds, says Producer-Director Peter Davis, "is not a chronology of war so much as a study of people's feelings...
...Religious language refers to human experience and nothing else, God being humanity's noblest creation...