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...reading your account of the sources of several of the phrases in Candidate McGovern's acceptance speech, I was curious about the inspiration for the "Come home. America" theme. As a Methodist P.K. (preacher's kid) of McGovern's generation, I recall singing many times the gospel-hymn chorus that goes...
...result is probably the most concentrated attack on this brand of religious Americana that has ever been filmed. Robert Mitchum may have been sinister as the "love-hate" preacher in The Night of the Hunter, but he was at least demented. Burt Lancaster may have been a tainted exploiter in Elmer Gantry, but that was at least fiction. Marjoe is very real and very chilling, an unholy innocent who seems to see himself as nothing more than a Peck's Bad Boy, a flimflam man of God who gives good service in return for his dollar. Marjoe believes...
...miya-mairi, which correspond to Christian baptisms, are traditionally Shinto, and their funerals are traditionally Buddhist. Now, increasingly, the Japanese are taking to being married in Christian ceremonies. This year 10% of all Japanese marriages are expected to take place in Christian churches-complete with white wedding gown, preacher, organ music and flowers-even though only 1% of Japanese are baptized Christians. At least 36 Protestant chapels in Tokyo cater especially to the "outsiders," but some couples even go to Guam or Hawaii for their ceremonies. The main reason they choose a Christian wedding: "It is so kakko ii [groovy...
BONNER REPEATS a line used by Peckinpah in 1970 to seal the fate of the love-making preacher in the comedy-romance. The Ballad of Cable Hogue: when a svelte rodeo groupie asks him why he's so reticent about making an emotional commitment, he says, "I'm just passing through." His life-fulfillment is limited to the peak experiences of the rodeo. He's just drifting, and if he sounds heroic and his acts seem attractive, that's our problem as well...
...everyone knows who George McGovern is, but the real George McGovern remains a somewhat elusive and contradictory figure. At 49, he is warrior turned dove, preacher turned politician, a gentle, sometimes boring man whose even exterior masks an obsession to be President, a prairie populist who has become the darling of chic city liberals. McGovern has a way of uttering ideas thought radical by many in so folksy a manner that even some conservatives come away intrigued...