Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stranger in Paradise
...sooner have the lone stranger and his faithful Indian companion settled in than the villain appears. He is a pop-eyed homesteader (Nigel Green) who fears that the wild herd will spread disease among his prize cows. Accordingly, he releases Mills's new-found herds from their corrals. O'Brian fights back, and gets moral support from Adrienne Corri, a willowy nurse devoted, as all nurses in this kind of film, to everything cute and cuddly-baby animals, native children and the hero...
...appears to be both cooler in approach and warmer in personality. A native of northwest Italy's Piedmont region, Archbishop Raimondi, 54, studied at Rome's Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, entered the Vatican diplomatic service in 1938 as secretary of the papal nunciature in Guatemala. He is no stranger to the U.S., having spent seven years in Washington during the '40s as a secretary and auditor at the apostolic delegation. He also served as chargé d'affaires in India and nuncio to Haiti, and since 1956 has discharged his functions as apostolic delegate in anticlerical Mexico...
...with artistic success and mechanical failure, Jewishness, the infallibility of cab drivers and elevator men, the superiority of Manhattan parks, ghettos and delicatessens. Tom Wolfe, a Yale Ph. D. in American Studies who has become a kind of Boswell of hip New York, contributes a scathing parody of a stranger's introduction to the city; a poet, George Dickerson, produces a remarkably prosaic, candid analysis of New York women. Occasionally, local color shifts into caricature, and the book is too breezy and cranky to serve as a visitor's only guide. It is fine as a complement...
Despite such straight reticence, Jones, who "tried the beatnik thing" in his Michigan college days in the '50s, was no stranger to hippiedom. He wrote TIME'S Man of the Year cover story on the younger generation. Before starting out on this one, he drafted a long query to our correspondents, and when a Los Angeles hippie got a look at it, he said: "Man, that cat knows what he is talking about." We think he does...