Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOVIES OR BOOKS about youth culture (and a host of other things, for that matter, like politics and social reality) can often be fairly judged by the critics they keep. When Stanley Kauffmann seizes on The Graduate as one of the most significant films ever made, you know something is amiss. Similarly when the press does chorus kicks for James Simon Kunen. Or when Pauline Kael hails Wild in the Streets. Scorecards of who likes what are less important when dealing with art works with little contemporary social content. Time thinks Persona is a masterpiece, but doesn't know...
...late 1870s, the ruling Kabaka welcomed the Anglican and Catholic missionaries who followed Explorer Henry Morton Stanley. But after the old king's death, the ruler's dissolute heir did not; the young man resented the fact that his Christian pages refused his homosexual advances. Finally, egged on by a jealous Prime Minister, the Kabaka determined to crush the new religion, and in one bloody, 15-month period, beginning in 1885, ordered the murders or executions of 22 Catholics and at least 23 Anglicans. Paul declared the Catholic martyrs saints...
...Miss Stanley refused to comment about the reasons for her charges, but the police report said that she had been arrested for distributing "highly inflammatory leaflets." The report also said that the leaflet called the police and the national guard that had partially occupied the town during the uprising, "pigs...
...leaflet said that the rebellions in American cities are an example of People's War of Liberation," Miss Stanley said. "It said that white people would help backs to fight thieving businessmen by any means necessary...
...worth one-half of Eldridge Cleaver's bail," Miss Stanley said. "I wish I were." She added that the judge in yesterday's hearings declared "I detest people like you who are trying to destroy America...