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...SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). "The Road to Gettysburg." Kevin McCarthy and David Carradine narrate this Civil War account of two soldiers, a Yank and a Rebel-from their induction to the Battle of Gettysburg...
...GREAT WHITE HOPE. James Earl Jones exudes enormous vitality as the tragic hero of Howard Sackler's play, which is based on the triumphs and trials of Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight champion. The drama has the scope of a minor saga, but Edwin Sherin has directed it as if it were a stampede; all decibels and no deftness...
Archaeologists have learned to be satisfied if their patient scraping unearths the wherewithal for even a footnote in the slowly growing record of man's early history. But recent digs have turned up enough material to flesh out two rich chapters in that saga. At Sardis, in western Turkey, a Harvard-Cornell N.Y.U. group has uncovered what is believed to be one of King Croesus' fabled gold refineries. In the barren desert of southeastern Iran, archaeologists from Harvard's Peabody Museum have found evidence of an extinct Middle Eastern city that was conquered by Alexander the Great...
...truly interesting figure in the movie is that of Cardigan's able young antagonist, the dashing Captain Nolan (David Hemmings). Nolan is, on the surface, the hero of the saga: he earned his commission by fighting in India rather than by paying in London, he disapproves of flogging, he falls in love, and he is a skilled horseman and soldier. But in a film where most of the other characters exhibit a That-Was-the-Week-That-Was simplicity, Nolan is a very ambiguous figure. For while he lacks Cardigan's fanatical obsession with form and privilege, Nolan...
...play has the aspect of a minor saga, but Edwin Sherin has directed it like a stampede: all decibels and no deftness. Either everyone shouts, or everyone postures in animated tableaux that look like posters left over from some social-protest movement of the '30s. Ostensibly pro-Negro, the play peculiarly caters to the stereotyped image of the Negro as forever singing, dancing, fighting, drinking and wenching. As for the question of racial injustice, the play provides a kind of false catharsis. It is the equivalent of appointing a congressional committee to investigate an air crash. It eases...