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Goodman is an immensely attractive personality. The extraordinary range of his knowledge makes immediate impact. The brilliant unorthodoxy of his social philosophy starties and charges. But his appeal Wednesday night to those fifty undergraduates who flocked about him, and followed him from the hall, was something more. They almost seemed to have discovered the parent of their dreams, at once both sophisticated and protective; a parent who would indulge their most impermissible desires, who would personally promote their initiation into the forbidden mysteries...
...first statistical studies of the re lationship between smoking and lung cancer had an understandable impact: there are 65 million cigarette smokers in the U.S. with an understandable in terest in their own health. But that twelve-year-old beginning left room for argument; even though the research continued, there were a few reputable medical men who were convinced that the case against cigarettes had not been proved. Late in 1959 the American Cancer Society enrolled 1,078,000 American volunteers in a project designed to produce enough statistics to convince anyone. Last week at the American Medical Association...
...play gains its overall effect less through representation or reality or any message than through pure theatre, much in the manner of Genet's The Blacks. Unfortunately, it lacks the impact of The Blacks. On reflecting, its caricatures contain a lot of truth, but watching them seems hollow...
Crystal Clear. Editorial comment also zeroed in on Johnson's position on civil rights. The Baltimore Sun thought that he had made it crystal clear: "No one can now doubt where Lyndon Johnson stands on the issue." The Detroit News, while agreeing, speculated on the impact on Congress, concluded that "Southern opposition has been placed in a difficult position." Columnist David Lawrence, who in his time has found merit in the South's position on the race problem, interpreted Johnson's remarks as "a compromise," and in that spirit endorsed them...
...helpless, gaping through the vastness of their picture window into the greater vastness of the city below. "O.K., I can see you now," says their tormentor. Later, Gondo and a squad of detectives board a train, and a brilliantly mounted ransom scene races by with all the blurred, whooshing impact of a head-on collision...