Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. Director Larry Peerce has produced some rare moments of social criticism in this film, but he frequently slips into burlesque. Nevertheless, Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw are always around to save the show with skillful performances...
...same kind of delicacy and shame has forced an almost awesomely destructive set of sexual attitudes upon us. Whole generations of Americans were taught that their natural processes were unspeakably vulgar and, as everyone from Freud to Spock discovered and proved, these repressions forced all kinds of personal and social disorders upon us. Europeans have always laughed at us as "those people who only make love in the dark...
...Your commendable "peaceful revolutionary" from Brown, Ira Magaziner [July 4], may have some difficulty if he plans to "joust with the authorities at Oxford's Balliol College." He had better be prepared for a group of dons whose social, economic and academic perspectives easily match the boldness of his own ideas. The doctoral program Magaziner will follow, supposedly so traditional, can be a study of almost anything, so long as he finds a supervisor who takes him seriously. He may discover that there is no shock value at all in a "sweeping cross-disciplinary plan of his own design...
...achievement record is mixed. On the plus side are foreign affairs, the direction set on Viet Nam, economic policy and an important psychological factor: the credibility gap that haunted Lyndon Johnson has been closed by Nixon. On the minus side is his lack of real leadership in the deepening social crisis of the blacks and the cities...
...meat. Which, considering one's dealing here with a whorehouse, may be an unfortunate choice of metaphor, however crudely it does demonstrate how this particular comedy often goes. Certainly, the most hilarious bits (and they embrace a whole gamut of comedy) belong to Joan Tolentino, as Miss Gilchrist, a social worker who "takes insults in the name of our insulted saviour." Since she's more Mary Magdalen than Virgin Mary, she ends up having to take a good many, too--which is all to the better, since she lets go with the most wonderful shriek everytime someone in the cast...