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...American Psychiatric Association created a task force to examine "the psychosocial impacts of nuclear developments." Under the guidance of two Medical School doctors. John E. Mack and William R. Beardslee, the group distributed questionnaires to more than 1000 students in public and private high schools in Boston, Los Angeles and Baltimore over the course of three years. Their task, according to an article they wrote for the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, "to assess the attitudes of children and adolescents toward nuclear war, nuclear weapons, and nuclear power plants...
...Kohl of supporting German groups that oppose the postwar division of Europe. "The imperialist circles in West Germany," the official Communist Party daily declared, "are now dreaming of the liquidation of East Germany−if not today, then tomorrow." Pravda published an equally harsh attack on General Hans-Joachim Mack, NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, noting that "European nations remember perfectly well what these typically German generals brought them 45 years ago." There have been no signs that the campaign is about...
Back in Honduras, F.D.N. leaders fret about whether the U.S. Congress will approve the pending $21 million in aid. "These Congressmen should not think just about the next election," says Mack, a muscular former Nicaraguan military officer. "They should look ahead five or six years. If we are not around, the U.S. will have to send Marines in. Then it is going to take the sacrifice of American lives to solve the problem of Nicaragua." Says a high-ranking F.D.N. official: "If the Americans think they can now just say, 'It was a mistake...
Andrews calls Rowse's Shakespeare the "Caliban" edition, after the half-man, half-brute in The Tempest. Maynard Mack, professor emeritus of English at Yale, tends to agree. Rowse's curious hybrid, Mack says, results in a "language that was never spoken by anyone-not by Shakespeare, not by us. People want the real thing. They don't want deodorized versions of the original. They read Shakespeare precisely because they realize that he belongs to a different world and time, and they want to taste and sense that time." Since last week marked the 420th anniversary...
...even something for the odd adult here: a dreamily delicate performance by George Gaynes as the academy's superintendent, a man whose mind went AWOL a couple of decades back. In other words, Police Academy's gains at the box office are not entirely ill gotten. Mack Sennett would have understood them...