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Autumn's strongest scenes turn on the senseless murder of a Cheyenne by transient cowpokes, and the tribe's ritual slaying of a brave (Sal Mineo) who has taken another man's wife. Here and in the stoic, timeless beauty of Squaw Dolores Del Rio are intimations of the tragedy that might have been. Most of the time, though, Ford scatters his beleaguered redskins listlessly across a 70-mm. Super Panavision landscape, showing twice the width but little of the scope that distinguished such Ford classics as Stagecoach. Perhaps he feels alien to Indians...
First of all, the lyrics were in English, my native tongue. And it was a clever translation too. Like when the soldiers are going off to war, the girls musically instruct them to "be a stoic. Be heroic." Or when the soldiers come in disguised as lecherous Turks, the girls react in horror: "It's too drastic, too fantastic...
...every afternoon he stops the campaign caravan to visit a local priest. At four o'clock every day he insists on drinking a large frappe and reading the Herald-Traveler. His whole life seems one long constitutional, and he lives it not as a mundane routine but as a stoic and invigorating regimen...
Nimble Fingers. Women perform best in jobs that require stoic patience, an eye for detail, and nimble fingers. Atlanta's Scripto Inc. employs women to put together its small pencils; the personnel chiefs at Burroughs Corp. believe that women can tolerate the tedious routine jobs that would drive men up the walls. The monotonous, repetitive jobs in the textile and garment plants are held almost wholly by women, and one-third of the nation's electronics gear is wired and assembled by them...
...Dolly drank Scotch, gambled heavily in all-night games of p'ai chiao (poker with dominoes) at men's clubs and pubs. Her behavior scandalized the women of Chinatown, but outwardly Dolly did not seem to give a yen that she was shattering the Chinese tradition of stoic, subservient women. Then two weeks ago, Dolly Gee was arrested for embezzling thousands of dollars from her bank. She said she had stolen not for profit but because "I come from a family of bound feet.* Everything my pop said...