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...REGISTRATION and, ultimately, the draft, return, as now seems likely, the Selective Service System should grant no exemptions, except conscientious objectors and those physically unable to take part. Men and women, rich and poor, undergraduate and graduate students should be required to serve. Too often in the history of this nation--the Vietnam War being the most appalling example--the children of the people who run the country and make the decision whether to go to war have been allowed to let others do the fighting for them. A new draft is not an attractive alternative, but an equitable draft...
...average limerent love affair lasts about two years. In the first wave of passion, the limerent thinks of the LO about 30% of the time, but in the second wave, which hits some months later, it can rise to 100%. The poor limerent is so hooked that nothing matters except the beloved, and feelings swoop between ecstasy and pain. This can be a drawback. You spend much of your time writing letters or diaries; you can't get your work done; all your friends decide you are a bore (mostly because you are). Limerence can strike at almost...
Though no modern industrial nation can be a totally self-sufficient island, the U.S. has little choice except to build safe stockpiles of those essential materials, such as chromium and manganese, that are found in quantity in only a few countries. The mineral-rich American West, Alaska and the oceans bordering the U.S. contain vast unmined natural resources that hold the longer-term promise of more domestic sufficiency and security. These minerals often remain in the ground or under water because of ecological concerns or the higher profits that firms can earn abroad. Steep mining taxes in Minnesota, Montana...
...which Martin has starred, and although it is a direct cinematic translation of the record album sketch, it does not work very well. The kittens used by the juggler (a gent listed in the credits as Pig Eye Jackson) seem pretty confused, and they don't do much except twist a little in the air. Martin expresses his ambivalent disgust, but since he helped write the screenplay, and since real kittens, no doubt much confused, must have been used to film the sequence, the moviegoer feels somewhat ambivalent himself. If the scene is not actually sick...
What remains clearly legible throughout is Greenberg's complaint against contemporary society and what one character calls the "weekend-guest view of life." Aunt Bessie bobbing helplessly across her ceiling is a comic parable of the effects of freethinking, except that the author is not laughing. Her stony integrity often redeems these stories from irritating knuckle-rapping. They engage the mind, unsettle it and survive as disputatious reminders of first principles and last things. -Paul Gray