Word: sams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. Woody Allen plays Woody Allen in his comedy about a neurotic young man who is rejected even by the girls of his fantasies...
...WILD BUNCH. The place is the Tex-Mex border, around the turn of the century, where a group of freebooting bandits try to scrounge a living out of a life that is fast becoming obsolete. Director Sam Peckinpah explores this violent world with hard-edged poetry and a sense of visual splendor that establishes him as one of the best American film makers...
...Moratorium Committee's coordinator is, in fact, a former McCarthy campaign aide, Sam Brown, 26. An ebullient onetime Harvard Divinity School student from Council Bluffs, Iowa, Brown has been restlessly seeking new ways to marshal a mass antiwar movement ever since he effectively organized campus youths behind McCarthy. He won a fellowship to Harvard's Institute of Politics last year, tried to create a strong anti-ABM movement in Boston, but soon lost interest in both enterprises. The idea for a Moratorium Day came to him last spring after a Massachusetts peace group proposed a drive...
Some Administration supporters are concerned that M-Day will be dominated by confrontation-seeking radicals and perhaps lead to violence. Sam Brown doubts it. He considers the antiwar feeling in the U.S. to be too pervasive to be dominated by any faction. He does not even expect the day's rhetoric to be unduly violent. "We will try to engage people in conversation rather than in polemics," he promises...
...movement is directed from the crammed Washington offices of the Viet Nam Moratorium Committee, which was organized over the summer by Sam Brown, 26, a former McCarthy campaign aide. Mainly a "goading agency," Brown's committee has left specific tactics to each of the 700 or so local campus chapters that have joined the movement so far. Many campus administrators were still undecided last week about how best to cope with the call for a moratorium...