Texas Gulf Coast Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1971 Page: 4 of 6
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TEXAS GULF COAST CATHOLIC
Friday. August 'll, lilil
Feature Film Review
Statewide
WaReat
Walkout is an unusual and in
many ways fascinating
motion picture. It has an
obsorbing (if routine)
storyline -* a survival trek
undertaken by two youngsters
abandoned in the vast, arid
Australian “Outback.” It has
attractive young actors in the
key roles - Jenny Agutter as
the elder of the two lost
children, Lucien John as her
bright and canny six-year-old
brother, and David Gumpilil
as the adolescent aborigine
who finds them and leads
them back to civilization. The
film is beautifully
photographed by Nicolas
Hoeg. who also directed, and
its “Outback” location
provides one of the most
exotic and spectacular back-
drops seen in recent years.
The film is based on a novel
considered by Australians, at
least, as the equivalent of a
latter-day Swiss Family
Itobinson adventure. Un-
fortunately. the film aspires to
being much more than an
exciting adventure, for it
contains a great many visual
and literary con'rasls bet-
ween civilization and
savagery as viable ways af
life. The deck is stacked
against the civilized way of
life, however, in a plea for
noble savagery that would
embarrass even the most
stalwart Rousseauiian en-
thusiast. Civilization is what
got the children stranded in
the desert in the first place, by
frying their pressurized
daddy’s brain and causing
him to drive them out into the
wastes, chase them away and
then shoot himself. It is also
what has left them in their
absurdly fastidious
schoolclothes, equipped with
little more than diction lessons
and a smattering of French to
face the barren land m front of
them. Their school lessons,
screams the film, have little
relevance in Real life.
The two wander about in a
semi-aimless fashion until
they are found by the kindly
aborigine, who is on his
“walkabout,” or lest of
manhood by survival in the
deserL Without understanding
each other’s language, the two
camps join forces and head
across the blazing wilderness,
eventually passing through
enough alternately baked and
luxuriant locales to turn the
film into a kind of hip Living
Desert. Roeg is constantly
zooming in on abounding life
all but invisible to the naked
eye -- ornate insects scurrying
this way and that,
camouflaged lizards, creeping
Koala bears. He also spends
great amounts of time im-
pressing us with the often
harsh but honest ways of
savagery - the graceful boy
kills various animals with his
primitive weapons, eats them
raw or half-cooked, uses
virtually every part of them
for food or equipment. Cut in
are contrasts showing
civilized man’s wasteful ways
- hunting for the kill only,
throwing away useful parts of
slaughtered animals, etc.
Roeg also includes a lyrical
but interminable sequence in
which the lovely Miss Agutter,
looking far more than her
supposed fourteen years,
takes a liberating nude dip in a
pristine jungle pool. This
portion of the film, like the
imagined ending, (in which
t tie girl, having returned to
Sydney and gotten married,
looks over her husband’s
V shoulder one evening and lets
her mind wander back to the
pool where we see all three of
the youngsters frolicking
naked in the sparkling water)
amounts to a heavily
propagandists push for the
Back-to-Eden movement. It is
not so much offensive —
although the nudity depicted is
total - as it is obviously
overstated. It is also
questionable that young
viewers will be able to cope
with it adequately (the film,
thanks to an appeal, was re-
rated from R to GP), or, for
that matter, that adults will be
able to view it without em-
barrassment and ner-
vousness.
There are more serious
problems In the film, however.
One is that many youngsters,
even if they can comprehend
the film’s message of the
natural life over the urbanized
civilization, will be disturbed
■. by. the opening moments when
the father shoots his pistol at
the brother and sister before
killing himself. Equally
disturbing, possibly, is the
seemingly Inexplicable
suicide of the aborigine after
an exhausting night of weird
danging around the aban-
doned farm to which he has
brought the pair. Only a few
people will know that the
dance was a mating dance,
that the girl rejected it. and
that the aborigine therefore
simply gave up the ghost by
hanging himself in a tree.
Unless accompanied by an
adult, even if only for
reassurance, a young viewer
might well be seriously
troubled by these elements.
And even without the extended
nude scenes, the film would
nonetheless have to be viewed
will) very definite reser-
vations. (A-IV) (Now Showing
at the Theatre near you.)
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EVIL KNIEVLL (Fanfare
Corp.) is a motorcycle
stuntman who has made a
career out of jumping his bike
over parked cars for the
amusement of Midwest rodeo-
type audiences. Motorcycle
enthusiasts may recognize the
name as that of a real-life
character whose story this
slapdash film purports to be,
but from a cursory knowledge
of the sport one suspects that
the shock of recognition will
be less than overpowering.
Director Marvin Chomsky
(his forte is TV) tells his saga
via flashbacks on the eve of
Evel’s big jump -19 cars, or a
distance of some fifty years -
in California’s Ontario Motor
Speedway. We watch our hero
(George Hamilton) growing
up in Butte, Montana, courting
his wife (Sue Lyon), getting a
start on the circuit, having
himself sewn back together
after some bum rides, and
now, finally, questioning his
mortality before the im-
possible jump. Chomsky’s
concept for a film about a man
driven by the desire to
forever outdo himself in order
to fend off personal in-
securities has a passing in-
terest, but Evel’s amiable
antics do not completely
redeem the immaturity of his
feelings about death - or the
cynical attitude of certain fans
who watch men like him
perform and hope for the
worst. (A-lll (Nqw Showing at
•Im» Kitz.)
Shamrocks
Attend Meeting
The Junior members of the
Spohn Hospital Women’s
Auxiliary attended the Fourth
Statewide Hospital Junior
Volunteer Convention August
10 through 12, 1971, at West
Texas State University,
Canyon. Texas. The con-
vention was conducted by
Texas Association of Hospital
Auxiliaries in cooperation
with the Texas Hospital
Association Council on
Hospital Auxiliaries and the
theme was “Giving is Living"
Hosts were Amarillo
Hospital Auxiliaries, High
Plans Hospital, Northwest
Texas Hospital and SL An-
thony Hospital.
Junior volunteers par-
ticipated in workshops to
improve volunteer patient
services. Dr. Lawrence Allen.
Dean of School of Library
Science, University of Ken-
tucky, Lexington, conducted
the sessions.
Thirty four Shamrocks and
two chaperons left Monday
evening August 9th, by bus
and returned, Thursday
evening, August 12th, 1971. All
activities were on campus and
for entertainment the young
ladies enjoyed swimming,
bowling, handball, music
appreciation, billards, table
tennis or just plain visiting the
fabulous center all under one
huge roof. A talent show was
also on the Western Scene with
Miss Texas, U.S.A., plus two
trips to the Amarillo Medical
Center and the spectacular
Palo Duro Canyon State Park.
ms-tv
Laredo-- The ‘‘IN-
SIGHT” program for Sunday,
August 29, is titled “Where
Were You During The Battle
Of The Bulge, Kid?”. Father
and son have difficulty
communicating until they find
themselves facing identical
problems.
HE LOOKS for a missionary
as his only help-
missionaries
look to you
for the same.
PITTSBURGH -- Nun
delegates to the fourth annual
meeting of the National Black
Sisters Conference in PilU
sburgh display a variety of
headdress. From left. Sister
Martin De Porres Gray, a
Pittsburgh Sister of Mercy
and President of the NBSC,
wears an Afro hairdo; Sister
Cal I is la Robinson, a Fran-
VARIED STYLES AT BLACK SISTERS CONFERENCE
CorOM cnrtstl. Ptrtiontf. Armiii Pm, ft«ck.
Mrt, Jtrtttowti, Lirttfo ani «im in Victoria.
Butter Krust
bread
Calendar of Events
The St. Anthony's mens club of Violet, will
have their annual Beef Bar-B-Cue on Oct.
12th, at the parish hall, Serving from 11 a.m.
lill2;:W) p.m.
NEW DAVKY AND GOLIATH TV
NEW YORK - This is a scene from Ihe
new Davev and Goliath television special
entitled "School-Who Needs it?” which has
been released in New York by the Lutheran
Church in America’s Commission on Press.
Radio and Television.
It is the fifth of Iha tO-minui e specials in the
popular series and is limed to coincide with
the opening of schools. Ollier specials have
hern Unit'd for New Year's, Easier,
Halloween and Christ mas. The regular 15-
mimite episodes are now carried weekly on
five continents and more than Hall stations in
the l .S. and Canada.
The show examines back-to-school lime
with Davev and his friends rebelling al (he
lluHighl of returning lo the classroom. Bui an
understanding teacher and an accidental fire
bring about a change of heart. (RNS)
Traditional Religious
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Habit Urged on Nuns
THOUGHTSON JOY
One of the favorite sayings
of Mother Mary Michael, Co-
Foundress of the Holy Spirit
Adoration Sisters, was “God
loves a cheerful giver”, and
she herself was the per-
sonification of this proverb.
She often said, “A cloistered
Sister never has any reason to
be sad, for if she is following
her God-given vocation, then
there is no room for anxiety.
Anxiety is only a snare of the
devil. Rather she must
cultivate a cheerful spirit and
always remember that the
only thing she has to do is to
give joy to the good God and to
rejoice in His goodness to
Christianity is the religion of
joy. The Christian does not
work out his salvation in
sadness. He is a child of joy ;
he goes about fully confident
in God Who brought him into
being and whose child he is.
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JOY is the“ second of the
twelve fruits 6f the Holy
Spirit. “0 adorable Holy
Spirit, give us your yoy that
we may do evei ything with joy
and enthusiasm - for the glory
of God and for the salvation
and santification of all men.”
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St. Francis de Sales said:
TO SEEK JOY IS TO SEEK
GOD, but can we not say, TO
LIVE IN JOY IS TO LIVE IN
GOD. It is Christ’s desire:
May My joy be in you, and
may your joy be complete.
(Jn. I5:_in + + +
Do you know how to acquire
Joy? Try to replace your
anxious and sad thoughts by
tender thoughts of Jesus.
When the joy of love dilates
one’s heart, God makes that
life more productive and
scatters blessings more freely
through it.
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When we go before Jesus in
the most Blessed Sacrament,
we should ask Him to give us
His Joy. Joy of Jesus, come to
me and take possession of me
so that 1 may give YOU to
others. +++++++
He who always has a
pleasant and kind word to say
brings joy to others, cheer to
himself, and peace to all
around.
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Minn., is dressed in a modified
nun’s habit: and Sister Myrna
Rose Joseph, a member of the
Holy Family Order from New
Orleans now studying in
Pittsburgh, wears an African-
styleGayla, a headdress some
black sisters are adopting as
an expression of black pride.
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RALEIGH, N.C. ( RNS)~
Bishop Vincent S. Waters of
the Raleigh Catholic diocese
has asked nuns who have been
experimenting with secular
dress to return to “their
traditional religious habit, or
a moriilied, identifiable
religious habit, which in-
dicates their total dedication
to God.”
In a letter to superior
generals and provincials of
women’s religious orders,
Bishop Waters noted that
“some communities of
religious women assisting us
in the apostolate of souls in the
diocese, without our con-
sultation, have adopted
secular dress in the way of an
experiment.”
“The wearing of secular
dress has been an occasion of
serious abuses and some
scandal in this diocese,” he
stated. “For this reason, I ask
the superior to send into the
diocese oqly sisters who will
wear the traditional habit, or
the modified habit, modest
and identifiabiy religious.”
The bishop explained that
this decision “does not imply
that all those who have been
experimenting with lay
clothes are not good
religious...” or that “sisters
wearing secular clothes are
less scholarly, less devoted in
their hearts to the work of the
Church, or are sinful.”
“It is the overtones of
worldliness in wearing a
secular garb that reduces, to
some extent, their spiritual
efficiency,” Bishop Waters
said. “This I have learned
from my own observations
and those of others who have
taken up this matter with
me.”
He noted that “not many
people will approach a lay
woman, to begin a con-
versation of their problems, or
express even their frien-
dliness, but it is different
entirely with a person in a
religious habit.”
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by Father Louis Joseph
School will start here in
■■greater” Taft on Monday.
August 30th. and I would
suppose that it will start
everywhere throughout the
Diocese at about the same
time. We are looking forward
to the registration of new
members in the Knights of the
Sanctuary as well as to the
registration of new units Who
knows, we may even receive a
unit from Laredo. We hope
that this will be the year for
the presentation of the
Eucharistic Cross. We are
already receiving inquiries
about the cost of the Cross and
the ring. We’ll be glad to
furnish your director with an
application blank for the rank
of Eucharistic Cross Bearer
upon request. Let us hear
from you.
Now that school is starling
we are really looking forward
lo hearing from the ..Sisters
who are in charge of Altarboy
units. I can’t help but admire
the excellent work that they
are doing. They made me eat
crow by doing such a good job
in the Knights of the Sanc-
tuary. In the original
regulations for the Knights I
had said that only a priest
should be the director
a unit hut the good sisters
have proven me so wrong on
that point that I just had to
change the regulation. One
should never sell the Sisters
short because he’ll end up
eating crow every lime. We’re
really proud of you. Sisters,
and we really do thank you for
doing such a fine job. Crow
really doesn't taste loo bad.
We have a set of identical
twins who will be joining our
unit soon. They will be in the
eighth grade and are twelve
years old. boy, they look
exactly alike. We’ll tell you
more about them when they
join.
.... We really do appreciate all
tHfr cart& and letters we
re^l^Hfbm you and if we
haven’t answered yours yet
we will very soon.
Please send all information
concerning your Mass Servers
to:
Knights of the Sanctuary
Diocese of Corpus Christ!
P.O.Box 418
Taft, Texas 78390
TV SPECIAL
"When Johnny Comes
Marching Home,” a one hour
documentary special
examining unemployment
problems facing returning
Vietnam veterans, lo be aired
Wednesday. September 1, 8:30
- 9:30 PM CDT, on the ABC
Television Network.
The Viet-Vet’s return home
is especially trying for a
variety of factors. The war
they have been fighting is an
unpopular one at home; the
hero’s welcome and special
considerations given to
veterans of - past wars is
noticeably absent, and
because of this, many ex-
G.I.’s become embittered at
the seeming lack of concern
and appreciation for their
risking their lives abroad for
their country.
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