Word: validating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are other problems. Our ideas haven't changed much over the summer. For instance, we're all the more convinced that encounter experiences are educationally valid. But encounter has become another Great American Fad. It's a serious and extraordinarily delicate undertaking, but people are rushing into it mindlessly. Even as we try carefully to integrate encounter with university education, there is a chance that the New College might degenerate into a far-out headquarters for home-made encounter groups. The same dangers exist in other areas. We want to avoid meaningless frivolity, but it won't be easy...
...does represent a form of "defeatism"-a widespread feeling that there is no clear way of forcing a peace settlement from Hanoi, but that the killing must stop and therefore the U.S. must pull out. On the other extreme, Nixon's plea for unity, while based on the valid notion that the war's real battleground has shifted to the field of U.S. public opinion, rests on the assumption that if the allies just hang on in South Viet Nam, the Communists will grow tired and seek a settlement-or the South Vietnamese army and government will grow...
...villains of the piece are the wily, arrogant, and ego-tripping males. They want a home, a Mother, and sex. and they get them at the cost of violating the individuality of their women. Though they try to rationalize their selfish actions, the admission of selfishness is more valid to them than that of weakness. "I've. opened up a whole new world of instinctual pleasures for you," says The Hunter to his bride whom he has just raped. When she remains moaning on the floor, he comes back with, "Well, you'll learn to like...
...political dislocations of the times: uncertain wars, a capricious draft system, inequitable distribution of opportunity and income, institutions too immured against necessary change. The goal probably should not be to eliminate drugs entirely, which is impossible, but to control them and diminish their allure by offering the only valid alternative?a life of challenge and fulfillment. That, as kids who have reached a mature understanding of drugs already know, can also be a turn-on, and a better...
...idea of good cinematography is getting everyone in focus and lighting the scene as if it were being shot inside a toaster. A few episodes (a session with a preoccupied psychiatrist, or an attempted seduction after a late-night party) do arouse tremors of mirth. There is some valid spoofing of people who try to live by the elusive non-standards of "situation ethics" (whether or not they have heard of the term) and who only end up in situation comedy. They cannot really tell an orgy from a "sensitivity" session-and neither, unfortunately, can the film's authors...