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...House for approval of a minor amendment. Congressional Democrats, claiming that they already have cut $5.6 billion from Nixon's requests, rate education as an item of top national priority and prefer that the Administration trim somewhere else in the fight against inflation. Their argument is a shade too righteous, since $600 million of the education money is for aid to schools where large numbers of Government workers strain local facilities. These schools are not always among the most needy...
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...shots allow Mizoguchi at once to shoot every situation with unbelievable guts and to keep his film flowing onward. They combine anguish and beauty, human motion and a fixed setting. In the beginning they glide with the noblewoman and her children through a forest, playing with the light and shade of the passing trees. When the bandits take her from them, fast tracks of incredible violence following them running along the shore after the women are cut against shots of her being carried off in a boat. In every track characters and setting, foreground and background, seem to be moving...
Director Mark Rydell (The Fox) carefully and lovingly reconstructs the turn-of-the-century South, and his reconstruction-perhaps a shade too soft of focus and rich of pastel-remains affectionate and without condescension throughout. The performers are uniformly excellent, with a special nod to young Mr. Vogel and Will Geer, who at film's end delivers a cautionary lesson to a stolid, recalcitrant Lucius in his best grandfatherly tones: "A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences, even when he didn't instigate them himself, didn...
...certain critics of America, the masacre will be added evidence that th U.S. is an immoral, unprincipled and racist power; others will insist, with a shade more justice, that the action mocks the pious official rhetoric about saving Asia from Communist aggression in th name of humanity. The most pertinent truth, however, is less accusatory and more difficult for the U.S. to accept: is that Americans as a people have too readily ignored and too little understood the presence of evil in the world...