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...passing reference to the "infamous Latin American disease of machismo," Klein's script gives little attention to the position of women in the revolution. It is assumed that women will fight alongside men, and when a team of women workers outdoes the men's team, they shout triumphantly "Viva las mujeres!" But it is also assumed that after a hard day's fighting in the jungle the women will do the cooking. Tania's no-nonsense personality is in obvious contrast to the role of the bourgeois flirt that she assumes as a spy, but when she wants to show...
...Horsey says that. "The real issue had never been approached in the midst of honest to God' battle it was forgotten, while viva is Revolucion" et al. was the day's chant." Although the factional squabbles Mr. Horsey describes are regrettable, the real issue of the march--racism--has more to do with revolution than with busing or schoolchildren. --Jon Jacobs
...this was only a play of light and shadow. For the real issue had never been approached. In the midst of 'honest-to-God' battle it was forgotten, while 'Viva la Revolucion' et al was the day's chant. Though the revolution might be coming, the march was supposed to have been for the children. And not much was heard of them. They floated around somewhere in the background, but only as an abstract concept, lingering in the shadow of the ultimate truth the revolution. Perhaps children are too small an issue. Certainly they pale in comparison with revolution...
...over the world. We have proof--it's only a matter of listening to Radio Moscow. These demonstrators here obey a central agency in New York." He touched on the same theme an hour later when, during his speech in a room of the Harvard Club, chants of "Viva Allende" were clearly audible from the 200 protesters on the pavement outside. "Your opinion groups are being led by foreign ideologies. Some words they are saying I've heard in San Francisco, Princeton, Berkeley, Europe, the Middle East, everywhere there are groups saying the same thing...
Some haunt the Varsity Club and others have their winning balls gilded. But if they're built anything like Shep Messing '72, they end up gracing the December centerfold of Viva...