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...halfhearted pass at Sandy, but one feels that it is intercepted by his conscience. Martin (Stephen D. Newman), a bisexual member of the diplomatic corps who vastly prefers men, delivers his sardonic lines with Wildean brio. He describes his forays among the local boys as "doing my bit for Anglo-Arab relations." Martin's frustrated wife Jill (Holly Barren), a sensualist with an unbridled tongue, tries to get a bit of her own back in a horizontal frolic with Ian (Christopher Curry), a soccer star. But hot as he is for Jill, Ian proves dismayingly un-proficient...
...seem to think that any such book should have been written by an Indian, preferably a Sioux with a Ph.D, in anthropology. Says Deloria: "Why do these non-Indians want to write about Indians? Is Hanta Yo more accurate than Black Elk Speaks?"* Hill replies coolly enough to the Anglo baiting: "These are not Indian-thinking people any more if they can't accept Hanta...
...library's adoption of new Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules in January 1981 would have required it to re-evaluate its cataloguing system anyway, he said, adding that the UC2 issue "helped us focus our attention quicker...
...report on the steel industry [March 17] shows clearly what corporate smugness can do to initiative. The industry has been protected, has neglected to turn its profits of the past into efficient production, and the U.S. will now reap the consequences. The English sickness should now be called the Anglo-American sickness: old plants, old management...
...more respectable among philosophers than it has been for a generation to talk about the possibility of God's existence. The shift is most striking in the Anglo-American academies of thought, where strict forms of empiricism have reigned. "What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know," declared Bertrand Russell. And A.J. Ayer, on behalf of logical positivism, decreed that "all utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical." The accepted wisdom was that the only, valid statements were those verifiable through the senses...