Word: stamper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debate at the A.B.A. Convention, however, was heated. Quoting from Thomas Jefferson's diary reference to "soliciting pettifoggers," Joe Stamper of Antlers, Okla., urged his fellow lawyers not to "equate legal services with soap and breakfast foods." But Roger Brosnahan, chairman of the A.B.A.'s Commission on Advertising, argued that "television advertising is not abused where it is permitted. The purpose of legal advertising is not to enhance the incomes of lawyers but to inform the public...
Anderson would recognize the Stamper family of Sometimes a Great Notion. "Never give a inch" is the clan motto. Their dogged nonconformity takes heed neither of political fashion nor social form. When a general strike is called among the lumbermen of their small Oregon town, the Stampers go right on working. The union pays a visit, and the head of the clan (Henry Fonda) makes congenially threatening remarks about "Commie pinkos who tell us when to cut." Replies the bookish union leader: "That's as good a statement of 19th century philosophy as I've ever heard...
...Stampers' devotion to their own simple truth is grotesque, there is a kind of perverse glory in it too. The strike is only a challenge and a test. When the union begins to exact reprisals, the younger Stamper men (Paul Newman, Michael Sarrazin, Richard Jaeckel) reply in kind. Theirs is almost a ritual defense against the onslaughts of contemporary society. Ultimately Sometimes a Great Notion is not so much concerned with politics as with freedom and the human value of outright defiance...
...screenplay is derived will miss Kesey's vigor and his bigger-than-life characterizations. The book roared, the film sputters. But the actors do it more than justice. Sarrazin, whose past performances have been consistent only in their boredom, is at ease and quite effective as a maverick Stamper home from the big city. Jaeckel is perfect as an inveterate joker who takes only his fundamentalist religion seriously, and Newman is better than he has been in years as the favorite son who idolizes his father. Fonda, as the old man, simply beats everyone cold. He has a death...