At The Movies
with Bob Peek
Is the most violent and gro
tesquely realistic movie yet made
also the year’s best picture ?
Maybe not, but by any relevant
standard The Wild Bunch is an
exceptional motion picture.
It has been years since there
has been a truly original plot in
a western movie, and accordingly,
outstanding westerns have been
results of fresh, skillful screen
writing, flawless direction and
superlative performances by the
actors.
Needless to say, few westerns
have fulfilled all these qualifi
cations. Those that have are
classics. Such movies as “Shane,”
“High Noon,” “The Magnificent
Seven” and “The Professionals”
are the dramatic equals of any
of the best movies the industry
has ever created.
“The Wild Bunch” is the story
of a group of old-time desper
ados who are being pushed out
of their profession by the ir-
resistable expansion of American
civilization in the early 1900’s.
They are getting old, the “jobs”
are few and the loot is skimpy.
After failing in an attempt at
robbing a railroad depot, the
bunch heads for Mexico, looking
for one last big job before calling
it quits.
The bunch gets its job and does
it “just like in the old days,” but
each knows the romance is gone,
and that his time is over. Fitting
ly, they die in an explosion of
violence such has never been seen
on the screen before.
Direction and photography are
impeccable. The style of photog
raphy used in each scene con
tributed almost as much to its
impact and meaning as the dia
logue, sometimes more. It’s a
movie that must be seen to be
believed.
No discussion of “The Wild
Bunch” can ignore the subject
of violence. The special effects
of violence in this movie are
frighteningly real. Although this
reality prompts many viewers and
critics to violently condemn it
as immoral and sick, it seems to
me that it’s stomach-turning as
pect is the movie’s greatest moral
value. The sheer reality of this
movie’s violence destroys the ro
mance of violence.
“The Wild Bunch,” “Bullit” and
“Bonnie and Clyde” are all vio
lent movies that I would take
my children to see. After seeing
it, they would never want to do
anything violent to anyone. Could
you say that about any John
Wayne picture?
By the way, do you really want
me to review “Darby O’Gill and
the Little People?” I didn’t think
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Mexicans Tour
Fire School
Twelve management officials
from Petroleos Mexicanos (Pe-
Mex), the national petroleum
company of Mexico, toured the
university’s Firemen Training
School Thursday and watched a
“light water” demonstration.
Fire Control Engineering Co.
of Fort Worth sponsored the
trip, which included instruction
and tours in Fort Worth, Texas
A&M, Bay City, Houston and
the Manned Spacecraft Center.
A synthetic foaming agent de
signed for fires in oil storage
tanks was demonstrated at
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Field by Fire Control Engineer
ing Co. president Werner Bar-
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tion reactions can lead to new
systems which can be used for
lasers, it helps explain the forces
that hold molecules together and
is applicable to the initial reac
tions which result in air pollu
tion,” Dr. Rose said.
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Dr. Rose Awarded
$7,800 Grant
Dr. Timothy L. Rose, assistant
professor of chemistry, has been
awarded a $7,480 Research Corp.
Frederick Gardner Cottrell grant
for research entitled “Molecular
Beam of the Dynamics of Photo
dissociation.”
The Milwaukee, Wis., native
said the work is concerned with
the effect of light on chemical
species.
“The understanding of the pri
mary processes in photodissocia-
5 Staff Members
To Attend Workshop
Five University staff members
will participate in a workshop
sponsored by A&M’s Sea Grant
Program at Texas A&I Univer
sity in Kingsville Dec. 11-12.
Dr. John C. Calhoun, Jr., A&M
vice president for programs and
director of the institutions’ Sea
Grant Program, will present the
program’s aims and objectives at
the meeting which will bring to
gether representatives from 25
Texas colleges and universities.
The workshop, entitled “Edu
cational Programs in Marine Af
fairs: The University View,” will
exploi*e the needs for marine-
related curricula at the junior
college and college level.
Dr. Richard A. Geyer, head of
A&M’s Oceanography Depart
ment, and Donald Walsh, Sea
Grant Program associate, will
take part in a panel discussion
of needs for existing or projected
educational programs.
Dr. Robert M. Sorenson, as
sistant professor of civil engi
neering, and Adm. James D.
Craik, superintendent of A&M’s
Texas Maritime Academy in Gal
veston, will present reports on
the educational activities of their
divisions.
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Meat Expert
Joins Faculty
Dr. Gary C. Smith, nationally
recognized for his lamb carcass
quality research, has joined the
Animal Science Department as
an associate professor.
Dr. H. O. Kunkel, dean of the
College of Agriculture, said the
new staff member’s main activ
ities will be teaching and conduct
ing meat science research as an
associate of Dr. Z. L. Carpenter.
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the University Hospital.
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Editor:
As freshmen at A&M, we were
appalled and disgusted with an
incident occurring Thursday
evening in Sbisa Dining Hall. As
two Aggies with longer than us
ual hair entered the hall expect
ing to eat the evening meal under
civilized dining hall conditions,
they were greeted by a most
nauseating display of bad man
ners and vulgarities. Upon the
entrance of the two, a large
group of their fellow aggies (?)
mounted their chairs and the ta
bles (amid the trays and food)
and proceeded with a series of
cat-calls and whoops. It could
be observed that a majority of
these “whoopers” were attired in
western apparel. In the first
place, these two individuals were
bothering no one and warranted
no such outburst. Secondly,
pushing aside common courtesy
and tolerance, as sanitary human
beings, it repulses and sickens
us to know that the tables on
which we must eat have been
tread on by boots and other foot
wear that have no doubt been
exposed to unsanitary conditions,
possibly even a stockyard or cor
ral. These actions only indicate
immaturity and a lack of con
cern for the hygiene of others as
well as themselves.
Don Plitt, Ken Walker,
Tom Raney
Class of ’73
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