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...made quasi documentary implacably opposed to the war in Southeast Asia. Green Berets is a piece of Hollywood celluloid fiction that clearly assumes the righteousness of the U.S. cause. Despite their divergent views, the two movies resemble each other far more than their makers would care to admit. Both preach to the converted; both assume that moral indignation is sufficient material for a scenario. And both leave the viewer with the conclusion that in a war movie, as in a war, the first casualty is usually common sense...
...message is that it's really important to believe in something, anything, any religion, anything meaningful enough to tell you why we're around and to answer all the questions he asked in Visions of Johanna. Saint Augustine has "a voice without restraint"; and Dylan, who doesn't preach anything, can't say he was wrong and doesn't doubt the sincerity of his actions. Sincerity, what a great thing...
...Harvard's trouble on behalf of the Indians, the College turned out only one Indian preacher. The single success, John Sassamon, attended Harvard for just one term in 1653 before he left to preach to the Wampanoags at Natick. (Sassamon is remembered less for his preaching than for his murder, which touched off King Philip...
...least surprise of the spring has been the readiness of some black firebrands to preach peace and Realpolitik in the ghettos. In the fearful days after Martin Luther King's assassination, Mau Mau Chieftain Charles Kenyatta joined with New York's Mayor John Lindsay in lowering Harlem's temperature. In Los Angeles' Watts, Black Nationalist Ron Karenga and other militants passed the word: no riots, at least for the present...
...short run, the murder in Memphis will probably increase the power of the militants. "The way things are today," observes Floyd McKissick, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, "not even Christ could come back and preach nonviolence...