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There is a kind of vagrant esprit among the exiles that keeps negative comment or complaint to a minimum. If indeed an amnesty or pardon were offered, many would doubtless elect to come home, particularly as the years accumulate. As Mike Powers, spokesman for the American Deserters Committee in Sweden, says: "Sure we want to go home, but we won't until the U.S. stops all its bombings, until there's total withdrawal from Indochina and the people there are left in peace to decide their own future...
...Lavish Meal. Unable to find work and oppressed by the poverty of the city, Joe leaves for the West, riding the rails and enjoying the vagrant's life. In every town he sees labor organizers being routed by cops and strikers being ridden out of town in boxcars. It is enough to convince him-if not the audience-that he must join the I.W.W., and the songs that he composes set the movement to music...
Kafka's observation provides a fitting epilogue to a brilliant, complex and vagrant film, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. Can a police chief -or any official with direct power -commit any atrocity that piques his fancy and get away with it? Italian Director Elio Petri (The Tenth Victim, A Quiet Place in the Country) raises a disturbing question that seems to defy satisfactory answer...
Before World War II, Céline spat out the story of his life and times in savage prose poems of hatred and disgust, which instantly made him famous for his genius and notorious for his antiSemitism. He was a vagrant, a prisoner, a hero during the first World War and a traitor during the Second. In 1944 he was jailed for collaborating with the Nazis, and for the next few years was in exile when not in prison. Now, seven years after his death in 1961, Castle to Castle, the final book by this demented genius, appears in English...
...place thousands of years ago in the Fertile Crescent, the lush Middle Eastern flatlands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Largely as a result of Braidwood's spadework, the Fertile Crescent theory has been buried. Most of his colleagues now agree with him that man actually abandoned his vagrant ways as early as 7000 B.C. and set up his first farm villages on the Fertile Crescent's hilly flanks, at elevations of 1,000 ft. to 4,000 ft., before descending to the alluvial river valley...