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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political struggle within South Viet Nam, it may well be that the "neutral" or "middle" factions will take on greater importance than in the recent past. Such groups as the Cao Dai, portions of the Dai Viet Party, the Buddhists, the progressive Roman Catholics and the Hoa Hao might emerge as viable alternatives to supporters of President Thieu. He bases his hopes for survival on the backing of a coalition composed of conservative Catholics as well as the Thieu-dominated military and civil services, opposed by a manageable minority made up of the Hoa Hao, the Buddhists, the Cao Dais...
...prayers at the Presidential Inauguration are meant to be mildly inspiring, a celebration of national virtues. At President Nixon's Inauguration, the Baptist, Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox prayers all fitted snugly into this tradition, but the Jewish prayer strayed into unfamiliar terrain. Rabbi Seymour Siegel, a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and an ardent Nixon campaign worker, delivered a prayer that is customarily reserved for the presence of kings. Its text: "Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hast given us of thy glory and flesh and blood...
...Dealers Association of America, Meadows' investment, valued at $5,000,000, depreciated overnight into a collection of junk. The Met's own famed Etruscan warriors, proudly exhibited for 28 years, were relegated to the basement when it was discovered that they were skillful forgeries produced by a Roman tailor back...
...campus in long black cassocks. They ate their meals silently while a prefect read from learned books. But neither its cloistered atmosphere nor its age (founded in 1869, it was the oldest Jesuit theologate in the U.S.) prevented Woodstock from being the nation's most dynamic institution of Roman Catholic theology...
Then Fellini's attention turns again, and he makes a feeble attempt at wartime documentary. The cater-wauling crowd scuttles at the sound of an air-raid siren, while the camera cuts to a panicked woman running down a deserted Roman street as shells explode in the distance. But every time Fellini comes close to confronting political reality, he shies away and returns with relief to the philandering life of Rome. He is content with an imaginative evocation of the sordidness of fascist Italy, but anything like explanation or analysis is far removed from this documentary...