On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Jeanine Pedersen wrote:
> palwick@SCS.UNR.EDU said... I read a fascinating review by someone who said
> that the problem with the film is that in fact it doesn't have the courage
> of the book's fascist convictions, that the book focussed on the brutality
> of the military training rather than showing it as a co-ed summer camp,
> and that by doing so it made disturbing but undismissable points about the
> efficacy of certain kinds of cruelty...
>
> I am assuming the writer is speaking of Starship Troopers here -- it wasn't
> completely clear to me -- if so, Heinlein was hardly a fascist, but really
> very enamored of the Spartan tradition. "Fascist conviction" packs a strong
> emotional message that really, when speaking of Heinlein's work, is
> inaccurrate and unfair. If I mis-read the post, my apologies.
>
No, you didn't misread the post, but "fascist convictions" was the
reviewer's phrase, not mine.
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