Word: western
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD BUNCH. There's a lot of blood in this raucous, magnificent western directed by Sam Peckinpah, and a good deal of hard-edged poetry as well. The plot-about a bunch of freebooters on the Texican-Mexico border at the turn of the century, the actors are faultless to a man. and the film itself is one of the best of the year...
TRUE GRIT. John Wayne has his finest hour in this cornball western comedy. His genial, self-satirizing performance as an aging lawman proves that his nickname, Duke, has seldom been more...
Covering North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh over the past 25 years has never been an easy journalistic assignment. Even the name is an alias. It translates as "he who enlightens," yet few Western news men have seen him, much less sat down for an interview. Nevertheless, for this week's cover story on the death of Ho and the new era that begins in North Viet Nam, our Hanoi watchers around the world were able to piece together a detailed picture of the complex Communist leader and Vietnamese nationalist...
...home, the French were forced to leave Viet Nam. But Ho failed to secure at the conference table what his troops had won in combat. Under severe pressure from the Soviet Union, he was forced to accept control of only half of Viet Nam. In the South, a pro-Western government was set up?with heavy American assistance...
...Woman was born in Ibsen's inkwell. When Nora slammed the door on hubby and the kiddies in the last scene of A Doll's House, wives all over the Western world began mentally packing their suitcases. The idea behind Nora's leaving was lofty. Woman was no longer to be a possession, a commodity, a glorified nursemaid, a kept dilettante on the sidelines of the world's imposing work. She would forge her own identity and earn something called "respect." The amusing thing about this, as G. K. Chesterton once pointed out, was that...