Word: pilgrimate
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Frank Dawley, a young ex-factory worker, has deserted his wife and his pregnant mistress to fight for the F.L.N. against the French in Algeria. His journey turns into what might be called an existential Pilgrim's Progress. Is he simply trying to escape the ties of his former life, or is he really bent on revolutionizing the world by fighting for Communism and the Algerians? The relentless sun becomes a more formidable combatant than the French, the endless sand a more unarguable reality than any dialectic...
...course, is wildly overblown, but America's own mythmakers are largely to blame. In U.S. folklore, nothing has been more romanticized than guns and the larger-than-life men who wielded them. From the nation's beginnings, in fact and fiction, the gun has been provider and protector. The Pilgrim gained a foothold with his harquebus. A legion of loners won the West with Colt .45 Peacemakers holstered at their hips or Winchester 73 repeaters cradled in their arms...
...Maharishi's new twin-engined Beechcraft Baron, the gift of the International Meditation Society, and a rough helipad has been cleared away on the hillside. Most of the improvements have been bankrolled by the initiation fee of the Maharishi's move ment-a flat donation of the pilgrim's salary for one week, which can add up to a tidy sum when the salaries are the Beatles...
This week, the Pilgrim features "Agony of Love" and "Wonderful World of Girls"--for "broad minded adults with young ideas." A gaudy poster for the first film proclaims it has been "banned over half the world!" If the other half should seek revenge, a familiar yellow and black sign hung just overhead offers some solace: "Fallout Shelter, Capacity...
Theoretically "adults only" can get in on the deal, as the theatres announce in signs large and numerous. The Pilgrim, classiest of the three (occasionally showing films like Loves of a Blonde), asks patrons to please be 21 or older. The Mayflower and the State will have you if you're eighteen...