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...Kennedy style: an irresistible fusion of the parvenu with a parody of the old-shoe aristocrat. As a movie-industry wheeler-dealer in the '20s, he introduced a bit of Harvard to Hollywood. But back East it was show business as usual, especially when he introduced his mistress Gloria Swanson to Rose. The high point of his social climb was undoubtedly the * ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's in 1938. "This is a helluva long way from East Boston," he told his wife during a weekend with the King and Queen at Windsor Castle...
...Whoppers or to skip that headache-filled stroll through Downtown Crossing simply translates into moral purism. Such acts might also lead the quasi-veggie to join a commune tucked away in a Vermont forest or isolated on a northern California sea-cliff. But a seclusion without frozen Swanson's brownies or the pulpy grease of Quarter Pounders also loses out on the potentially progressive parts of an often despicable society...
...American come from? What will they do after the final fade-out? And what of Laura Hunt and Waldo Lydecker (Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb in Laura), Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony (Farley Granger and Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train) and Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis (Gloria Swanson and William Holden in Sunset Boulevard...
...UNDERSCORE the urgency of the currer situation, much of Freedom Rising presents the bleak side of South Africa. It is the story of the hundreds in South Africa who are going to jail, and of the sophisticated police state that puts them there. Swanson's personal abhorrence of apartheid permeates every page of the book; in fact, the tone is often unnecessarily moralistic since his facts speak clearly enough in opposition to the current regime...
...anger, Freedom Rising is also infused with a deep love for the South African land and people, and ultimately with great hope. And the harsh bite of Swanson's all too evident distaste for apartheid is countered by a poignant vision of what could be. In one highly moving passage, Swanson recounts his visit with Nokukanya Luthuli, widow of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Chief Luthuli, who was banned for speaking out against apartheid. Luthuli, together with the other 25,000 Black residents of the region, had just staved off a government attempt to force them into a bantustan. Swanson found...