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...They are so straight and dependent on confidence in the system that they may seem alien to some...
...perform abortions. Dr. Robert Hall, associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, believes that some doctors resent laws allowing the woman to decide on abortion because they limit the physician's "godlike role." Many doctors also find the procedure alien to their experience. Hall estimates that before the New York law took effect, the typical specialist performed only one or two therapeutic abortions a year; much of his practice was devoted to assisting a normal delivery...
...boys agreed with the philosophy of one teen-age felon who insisted that "If I'm not gettin' nothin', I'm not givin' nothin'." But now they share the outlook of another inmate who voices a concept that would have seemed alien to them before they began meeting: that it is important "to respect other people's feelings...
...bigoted upper-class perspective. The hero's generalizations about national character, his sense of the country, the Cuban soul, his generally useless impressions of social events, all run through the film and stand as a description of Cuba which the film nowhere objectively opposes. His oppressive sense of the alien city with its crowds, characteristic of the most hackneyed modern Western fiction, stands unchallenged as a description of Havana under socialism...
...accused of wantonly slaughtering at least two dozen men, some of them drifters from Marysville's Skid Row. Indeed, his history has its seamy side. He and his elder brother Natividad, a known homosexual, came to the U.S. illegally in the late 1940s. They both won U.S. resident-alien permits, however, and began to prosper. Juan became a contractor who assembled work gangs before dawn and delivered them to the local orchards; Natividad bought the seedy but popular Guadalajara Cafe in Marysville. Juan was unhinged by the Feather River flood of December 1955, which killed 40 people...