Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALICE'S RESTAURANT. This is a film about young people that is, as they say, very much together. Taking Arlo Guthrie's hit song of a couple of years ago, Director Arthur Penn has fashioned a sad, funny, tragic, beautiful picture of a way of life...
...cast of characters-politicians, journalists, civilians, combatants-at once supply historical continuity and act as a kind of tragic chorus. Journalists like Jean Lacouture and David Halberstam recount the development and deepening of the war. Meanwhile the screen shows scenes of John Foster Dulles promulgating his doctrine of "collective security" and French troops vanquished at Dienbienphu. There are glimpses of wartime savagery on both sides, and there is even some comic relief, as when Madame Nhu announces "About that question of the rubber stamp parliament: I have repeatedly said, 'But what's wrong to rubber-stamp the laws...
...technological future goes, Eiseley has little doubt that the standard rule of civilization will continue to apply: "Solutions to problems create problems." As if it were perverse salvation, he clings to a classically tragic vision of life. It is a dark journey from birth to death, and nothing can change that...
Ever since the anti-war movement became serious-after the 1967 March on the Pentagon-radicals have pointed out that the war is not some sort of tragic American foreign policy, but a logical result of American imperialism...
Almost as soon as the campaigning began, it became apparent that the most important issue of the election was the P.M. himself. Gorton, 58, took over the party's leadership 21 months ago, after the disappearance of Harold Holt in a tragic swimming accident. Initially, Gorton was immensely popular. He seemed a refreshing change from his two most immediate predecessors: the aloof, Olympian Sir Robert Menzies and the shy. withdrawn Holt. Then troubles began to pile up. Critics cited his penchant for naming unqualified cronies to high ministerial posts, his reluctance to take advice, his generally autocratic manner...