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About three years ago, as a result of court decisions liberalizing what could legally be put on sale, the market for salacious magazines picked up swiftly. Total nudity is now common. Some of the more explicit publications, showing sexual acts, sell under the counter for as much as $10 and $15. Sex tabloids are also cashing in -usually at 50? a copy. Screw, the genre's prototype, was started by two young journalists and the wife of one of them on a $350 investment. It grossed $650,000 in the first year...
...progress (or at least change) that has appeared in 20th century America. Obversely, a number of businessmen, while transforming the society by automobiles, advertising, computers and urbanization, refer to themselves as conservatives, a term suggesting opposition to change. Almost any so-called radical utterance these days will contain an explicit or implicit rejection of the mainstream of change during the past 150 years, together with a longing for a future society conceived as a static Elysium. As for the modern liberal position, it has been more noted for restraining (sometimes wisely, sometimes foolishly) the forces of change than for stimulating...
Last fall Cheyney and seventeen other students were expelled from Harvard for action in an antiracism campaign against the pay differential between painters and painters' helpers. Harvard sent these students a letter forbidding them from appearing on Harvard property without explicit authorization...
...Spectator is currently chartered as a tax-exempt corporation with the explicit right to endorse political candidates. An IRS spokesman said they must have "overlooked" that provision when they approved the Spectator's tax-exempt status five years ago. The paper endorsed Nelson Rockefeller in the 1966 New York gubernatorial election and Eldridge Cleaver for president...
...single words and he responds: "Aristotle"/"Red," "Circle"/"Lion." As in One Plus One's interview with Eve Democracy, we immediately begin weighing his responses for their political significance ("Revolution"/"October," "Stalin"/"Airplane.") Then, however, the problems implicit in this mode of presentation suggest themselves- problems that become more explicit in a similar interview with an old, possibly senile man. When the subject does not respond is it because the device feeding him words is faulty, or because his hearing is bad, or because words like "tenderness" simply don't evoke a response from him? When he responds without repeating...