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THE RICE THRESHER OPINION FRIDAY. MARCH 26, 2004
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age their children to kill others
and that they will go to heaven as
martyrs. Horowitz is crude, offen-
sive and incorrect in his blanket
assertion that all Palestinian par-
ents, or that Palestinian culture,
follow this practice. But let us be
clear: Palestinian children are
routinely subjected to television
programs, flyers, radio announce-
ments and other propaganda
sponsored by the Palestinian Au-
thority and terrorist organizations
like Hamas, which indoctrinate ha-
tred towards Israel. This has been
documented by many groups and
is routinely overlooked by
supporters of Palestine. Such in-
citement is one of the greatest
obstacles to peace between Israel
and the Palestinians.
This is only one example of some
of the facts Horowitz presents.
A troubling side note is Casey-
Ford's statement that it is offen-
sive to say that arming children
and inciting them to violence is
immoral. How can anyone argue
the immorality of using children in
warfare, whethci in AVica, Pales-
tine or elsewhere? Desperation is
no excuse.
David Axel
Brown sophomore
'Passion* review
ignorantly misses point
To the editor:
1 was almost in awe of the sheer
ignorance displayed in the review of
The Passion of the Christ ("Extreme
violence clouds Gibson's religions
'Passion,'" March 12). The funda-
mental error, according to the re
viewer, is: "[Gibson] focuses on the
suffering and execution of Christ to
the near-exclusion of everything
else. ..." The reviewer misses the
point, as he feels as though other
aspects of Jesus and his life were
absentmindedly omitted.
But why? All of Christ's gifts pale
in comparison to the gift of forgive-
ness of our sins. It is that one gift
that enables Christians to enter
heaven if they have followed the
path of Christ.
Catholics (like myself) hear the
gospel accounts of the Passion
every Lenten season. Though the
message is powerful, I never found
myself thinking about the intricate
details of having nails hammered
through my hands and feet and my
body tortured to the bone. During
the movie, every lash that fell
across Christ's back reinforced in
my mind the ultimate love he has
for us. As the movie went on, I
finally felt as though I "got" what I
had only heard about in Mass. A
picture is worth a thousand words,
they say.
So while the reviewer thought
the movie was a failure, I must
reiterate that he is in the absolute
vast minority. Mel Gibson has
without a doubt enabled the world
to visualize the greatest gift of
Christ, which is truly a monumen-
tal success. What would a fair re-
viewer do? Give the movie more
than one star.
William Hoy
Lovett sophomore
'Assassins' review fails
to identify key theme
To the editor:
Adriana Ramirez misses the
point of Stephen Sondheim's vi-
sionary musical Assassins in her
review ("Wanna-be assassins have
loud grins, soft voices," March 12).
In an otherwise reasonable review.
her confusion about the content of
the show is manifested in her inco-
herent closing paragraph, in which
she almost seems unsure of
whether the show condones the
act of assassination — it clearly
does not.
More directly, her introductory
synopsis of the show suggests that
she understands it to be no more
than a collection of historical facts
about some assassins put to music.
To be sure, there are a lot of
strange details about the nine as-
sassins. But when all the assassins
join together to sing "Another Na-
tional Anthem" and "Everybody's
Got the Right" in chorus, it be-
comes clear that all these details
have a point.
These songs identify a unifying
theme underlying the diverse mo-
tives of each of the assassins — the
uniquely American insistence upon
the right to be happy, enshrined in
our nation's founding document as
the "unalienable Right [to] the pur-
suit of Happiness."
Indicting the "right to be happy"
for playing a defining role in the
deaths of Abraham Lincoln and
John Kennedy amounts to a power-
ful social criticism and a challenge
to each member of the audience to
ask themselves how much they
might have in common with the
assassins — how far would you go
to achieve your own personal con-
ception of happiness?
If you enjoy musicals primarily
for the singing, dancing and gen-
eral fun, you will not be disap-
pointed by Assassins. As Ramirez
graciously describes in her review,
the talented cast delivers on all
counts. But if you demand theater
that makes you think. Assassins is
most definitely a musical for you
as well.
Tim Huegerich
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Berenson, Mark. The Rice Thresher, Vol. 91, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, March 26, 2004, newspaper, March 26, 2004; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth398517/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.