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...military bases around the Pacific rim with what Miss Fonda called "a political vaudeville," a jaunty traveling cabaret intended to stand in marked contrast to Bob Hope's annual earsplitting chorus of Jingo Bells. This documentary is a record of the trip as well as a kind of pamphlet on celluloid, a tract against the war in Indochina and against the brutalizing and dehumanizing effects of military service...
Hardwick is offended and infuriated most of all, however, by "little things that come floating through the mail"; Women's Lib pamphlets and propaganda whose very language and terminology insult her intellectual sensibilities. "At whom is it leveled, what good do they think it will do?" she asks, understandably, from her position as successful and professionally independent woman. There were those who cringed, however, at an absent-minded answer she gave to the effect that there are "only one or two women writers one thinks of when looking at the nineteenth century." (Maybe some day the pamphlet will come floating...
Those interested in this subject may start by consulting the evidence marshalled by the late historian-anthropologist Joel A. Rogers in his multi-volume Sex and Race and his later pamphlet The Five Negro Presidents. Rogers was an indefatigable digger, and carefully cited his sources. At the same time, those familiar with his extensive oeuvre know that he, a Negro himself, tended to be overzealous in drawing conclusions from his data...
...Bison's soccer publicity pamphlet this year, coach Lincoln Phillips, former coach and goalie for the now defunct Washington Darts pro team, was so upset by the loss that he returned to his native Trinidad and personally handpicked 12 freshmen recruits...
...spokesman, John Burke, told the Crimson yesterday that he refused to discuss the allegations of the pamphlet because "the facts were in error. It's all past now--they have already done what damage they have done...