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...remarkable aspect of the shift was that Romney managed it merely by changing emphasis rather than by overt self-contradiction. In his Hartford speech four months ago, he emphasized points of agreement with the Administration, including his willingness to have the U.S. "use military force as necessary." As to domestic politicking, he observed then: "It is not a test of wills to see which party will be the peace party, which candidate will be hawk or dove." The performance earned him a public thank you from the White House...
...classmates that he "talked funny." By August 1965, he was talking wise-and wearing tight trousers and Italian shoes. Officers Lee Minikus and Bob Lewis of the California Highway Patrol, who arrested Frye in the sight of hundreds of irritable Negroes, were well-trained, ambitious cops who bore no overt prejudices against Negroes. One of the rioters that the book focuses on is Cotter Williams, 15, who hated the "Whips" (white power structure); when the $16 a month he made from his paper route was deducted from his mother's relief check, Cotter simply dropped the route. His half...
...stressing violent revolution. Venezuela's Moscow-lining Communist Party broke completely with Cuba four months ago, protesting Castro's stepped-up aggression. Last week the Organization of American States accused Castro of sending four armed Cuban regulars to the coast of Venezuela last May, the first overt and deliberate military invasion of one Latin American country by another since the Gran Chaco border war between Bolivia and Paraguay more than 30 years...
...families whose principal function would be child rearing; the rest of the population would be free to function-for the first time in history-as individuals." This will result from worldwide birth control and the "massive failure" of the present family setup (as evidenced by "adolescent rebellion cults, overt and aggressive male homosexuality, female promiscuity, and a growing incidence of alcoholism, addiction and psychosomatic disorders in both sexes"). In the new family relationship she envisions that "companionship for work, play and stable living would come to be based on many different combinations, within and across sex lines, among different-sized...
...novels (Thomas l'Imposteur, Les Enfants Terribles), his baroque plays (The Infernal Machine, The Human Voice) and, above all, his otherworldly films (The Blood of a Poet, The Eternal Return, Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus, Les Enfants Terribles). He was also given to scandalous public poses as an overt homosexual and self-confessed drug user. But unlike Oscar Wilde, who tripped and fell into the gutter of Victorian reality while trying to walk his mystic way, Cocteau, for all of his histrionics and acrobatics, always managed to regain a safe perch. He was somehow able to have his cakewalking...