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...often, children's movies are a chore for parents, a bore for kids. The Railway Children offers so many quiet pleasures, however, that not only will the kids be enchanted but their elders might even want to sneak off and see it on their...
With all its closely observed details of Edwardian life, The Railway Children is an elegy for an era. Gas furnaces, bell boards in the kitchen, paper chases, old toys, carriages and capes, those beguiling trains-all conjure up a time of seeming innocence when unhappy endings were punishable by law. The matter of Father's mysterious disappearance is of course eventually cleared...
...promised new regulations that will effectively eliminate the hated "pass laws" that require all blacks to carry identity cards and severely restrict their movement; it was during a protest against these laws that police opened fire at Sharpeville in 1960, killing 67 blacks and injuring hundreds. The government-owned railway is ignoring laws against hiring nonwhites for skilled jobs; the local General Motors plant, whose labor force is 52% nonwhite, has been quietly doing the same thing for years. The Trades Union Council, the country's largest labor organization, has demanded that blacks be given the right to join...
Kiley is marvelously intuitive in the role, capturing both the smug vanity and simultaneous vulnerability of literature's seedy hangers-on. In A.V. Laider, Kiley is a prescient palmist who foretells the death of four people riding in a railway coach. Or does he? Beerbohm is having a little fun with the old writer's problem of illusion and reality. Neither story is much more than an attenuated anecdote told over brandy and cigars...
...immediate mark. Said a Manhattan construction worker: "He's thinking of the overall problem, which he knows and I don't." Moreover, an increasing number repeated labor's ceaselessly argued point: that the Nixon program places an unfair burden on labor. C.L. Dennis, president of the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks, pointed to perhaps the greatest disparity possible in a period of incomes policy. Says he: "Sure, I've got a few shares of stock myself. But it's wrong as hell to have fortunes made by speculators on the stock market while workingmen's wages stand frozen...