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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rusty samurai sword to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos in a gesture of surrender. Mindful perhaps of his country's valuable economic ties to Japan, Marcos returned the sword and pardoned Onoda for whatever crimes he may have committed during his years in hiding. "You're a great soldier," said the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Hiroo Worship | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...GOOD SOLDIER ŠVEJK

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Czech 22 | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...mindless brutalities of bureaucracy with sheer simplicity and obdurate truth. In the endless flux of empires, ideologies and wars, he is the irreducible survivor. Such a one was Voltaire's Candide, Cervantes' Sancho Panza, Joseph Heller's Yossarian-and Jaroslav HaŠek's Good Soldier Švejk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Czech 22 | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...similarity to Arthurian legend is hardly coincidental, though Richard Tregaskis, the war correspondent (Guadalcanal Diary) and novelist who died last August, was writing about the ruler of a small island kingdom a millennium removed from Camelot. In telling of Kamehameha, the very real soldier who waged a 30-years' war (1780-1810) to create an Hawaiian nation, Tregaskis leaned indulgently on legends of the sort that defy time and locale. The Polynesians had neither calendar nor alphabet before English-speaking traders started settling in the islands in the 1780s. Knowledge of Kamehameha's early career is misty, accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polynesian Arthur | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...there is a nice element of nostalgia for the bad old guys in Crazy Joe. In addition, he was nothing if not a veteran Mafia soldier, so there is ample opportunity to poke around glumly tasteless mansions inhabited by sundry god-fatherly types. And there they are, nibbling- their ethnic viands as they order up colorful executions of errant associates. Such sequences should satisfy Cosa Nostra buffs, who seem to form a significant portion of the movie audience today. Finally, as every tabloid reader must remember, Crazy Joe contracted toward the end a loose alliance with black mobsters - also outsiders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Littlest Caesar | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

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