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They could not find their cave, which, like their youth, had vanished under more than 40 years of erosion. But as the three Americans, puffing and sweating, clambered back up the steep Philippine hillside, they knew they had shared the pleasure of searching...
Snaking through the movie is a familiar Spielberg theme: the disappearance, and then the welcome return, of children. It illuminates his three most personal movies (Close Encounters, Poltergeist and E.T.) and affirms his belief in movies as a Mechanized Fountain of Youth. Toward the end of Temple of Doom, Indiana leads hundreds of enslaved Indian children out of an underground quarry and into the light. Spielberg means to be another kind of Pied Piper: leading grownups into the darkness of a moviehouse to restore, for a couple of hours at least, the innocence of childhood in all its wonder...
...members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee noted earlier this year, Damon Silvers of the DSA cannot bring himself to support the heroic struggle of the African National Congress (ANC) and instead focuses on the U.S. and South African white ruling class as the vehicle for change. The Spartacus Youth League does not share the illusion that if Harvard divests from companies doing business in South Africa, the rest of the world will follow suit, causing as economic collapse and the subsequent reform of apartheid. This is a pipe dream, designed to soothe the guilty consciences of liberal Harvard students...
White remembers the racial strife that existed when he was a youth. "When I was a boy the real tensions were between the Irish and the Italians, and they were bitter, and they were physical, and they weren't just fun. But it was neighborhood turf...
Despite evidence of modest progress, University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Frank Furstenberg, among others, is not optimistic. "I think the situation is very grave," he says. "Unless we take steps to alter the situation, I think we are going to have a lost generation of black youth that is ill equipped to enter the labor force or to form families." At least black leaders are now declaring that family instability is an urgent concern. "It has been the strong black family that is the reason for our survival as a people," said N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks at the Fisk conference...