Word: plainsman
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...Plainsman is a saddle-brained shoot-'em-up that borrows its title and most of its plot from Cecil B. DeMille's 1936 sagebrush saga that starred Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. The present version seems innocently certain that trite makes right. The innocence has a certain charm, but the same can hardly be said of the clichés: the noble old Indian chief ("Cheyenne not want war!"), the nasty young brave ("Kill! Kill!"), the snotty regimental C.O. ("I'll give those filthy Indians a taste of cold steel!"), the cowardly villain ("Don't shoot...
...dedication ceremonies for the $3.000.000 Eisenhower Presidential Library in his boyhood home of Abilene, Kans., Dwight Eisenhower had some blunt, plainsman's thoughts for Americans to ponder. Standing before the two-level building, which eventually will hold 20 million documents from his two terms in the White House, Ike wondered aloud: "What has happened to our concept of beauty and decency and morality?" Books and movies are laced with "vulgarity, sensuality, indeed downright filth." People dance "the twist instead of the minuet." Modern paintings look as if they have been "run over by a broken-down tin lizzie loaded...
Toward midnight, a senior Japanese bureaucrat cautiously ventured out into Tokyo's sheltering darkness carrying a chrysanthemum-embossed copy of the revised U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty. He inspected the streets for signs of left-wing demonstrators with all the wariness of an oldtime plainsman watching for hostile Sioux, then headed for the Imperial Palace. There he was admitted inconspicuously, waited as Emperor Hirohito brushed on his signature...
...saddle, and for 40 years a professor at the University of Texas, is also his generation's foremost philosopher of the frontier, and the leading historian (The Great Plains, The Texas Rangers) of the American West. At 71, he has been made the hero of a sort of plainsman's festival of letters-a collection of his occasional essays (An Honest Preface; Houghton Mifflin; $3.75), trimmed with the personal tributes of his Texas friends. Says his old friend and cultural sparring partner, J. Frank Dobie, the famed Western folklorist (The Mustangs, The Voice of the Coyote): "Webb...
...Without even giving him a hearing, President Ralph Draughon of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute bowed to the will of his trustees, summarily sacked Assistant Professor of Economics Bud Hutchinson, 36, for writing a letter to the undergraduate Plainsman praising the progress of integration in New York City's public schools. Said the president: "In the light of the emotions and tensions over this question in Alabama. I felt that Mr. Hutchinson could not expect to advance his career at this institution." Obviously, retorted Hutchinson, "professors who dare to perform their function of providing information do so at the peril...