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...Richard Schickel...
Feeling as I do that art in both its creation and criticism is largely an individual matter, I still find Richard Schickel's television review of Roots [Jan. 24] unacceptable...
...Schickel can complain about the dialogue. The most monstrous dialogue is the American vernacular of Washington, Jefferson, and those we call the founding fathers, living off the labor of slaves while debating the God-given liberty of mankind...
...suggest that Mr. Schickel take a look at Middle America's history and social studies books. He will find they are oversimplified...
...Until now, thank heavens, the movies have avoided such blather. Perhaps this dismally attenuated movie will warn other film makers away from a conceit that has not even served literature very well. If so, Resnais's icily expert technique will not have been expended totally in vain . Richard Schickel...