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There is a bad side to life in Amarcord: fascism and especially the Church, with its laughable confessionals and pathetic attempts at education. But the schoolchildren Fellini focuses on aren't warped or victimized by the Church--they exploit it, puncture it almost effortlessly, without retribution. Even the ordinary cruetly of children to other children (such as the very fat or the very small) never goes beyond the verbal stage. Sometimes, particularly in the opening scene of the bonfire with which the town welcomes the spring, there is a hint of menace, but these hints are always resolved into...
...forthright attack on the system that denied them their freedom. But in another sense the fact that Saturday's march won't be the first of its kind is encouraging, for experience shows that it can work. When Southern school systems were forced to accept racial integration, schoolchildren--especially black school children--were subjected to extreme pressure aimed at reversing court and Justice Department orders, just as black schoolchildren in South Boston have been taunted and stoned in an effort to force a reversal of Judge W. Arthur Garrity's busing order...
...KOREA. After Tokyo and Kyoto, Seoul should look pleasant to Ford. There will be no protest demonstrations; the tough South Korean police will see to that. Instead, Ford could anticipate arches of welcome soaring across the streets, a sea of American and Korean flags, and hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren chanting "Mansei!" ("Long life...
...well-wishers have ranged from Emperor Hirohito of Japan and West German President Walter Scheel, to schoolchildren who laboriously copied out their letters of friendship. A number of women who have also undergone mastectomies-including Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the 90-year-old daughter of Teddy Roosevelt-took the time to write. Mrs. Ford's illness also produced a cornucopia of gifts, which have generally been passed along to hospitals, plus contributions in her name, including a $5,000 check to the American Cancer Society...
...Hawatmeh, 40. He and his 500 Marxist followers split from Habash's organization in 1969, complaining that the P.F.L.P. was not vigorous enough in combatting right-wing Arab governments like Jordan's. Their most notable recent operation was the Ma'alot raid in Israel last May, in which 21 schoolchildren were killed. The attack prompted a massive Israeli retaliation by air on Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon...