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...failing to portray the Negro as a matter of routine and in the context of the total society, the news media have, we believe, contributed to the black-white schism in this country. They have not communicated to the majority of their audience-which is white-a sense of the degradation, misery and hopelessness of living in the ghetto. They have not shown understanding or appreciation of-and thus have not communicated-a sense of Negro culture...
...thesis of these films that student violence can be explained away with an ounce of Spock, a pound of Kenniston, and a ton of Freud. Sex, fun and games: youth culture films attempt to portray student-police confrontation as the new campus sport. Students are heavily gassed inside an enclosed building but they can still run and sing for minutes and even gang up on an isolated policeman. The students cough: they bleed; they cry-but it is all razzle-dazzle ball and tonight they will exaggerate their battle wounds so they can sleep with the sexy chick or that...
...environmental artists [June 29] can't be real! They have closed their eyes to the exquisite beauty of natural phenomena and abused the landscape with their egotistical dalliances. In so doing, they have added to the grievous misuse of our environment. Their creations are self-portraits that portray man as a polluter-dumping massive doses of dye, burning gas and haphazardly inoculating sterile zones with microorganisms...
...rights groups. Garment termed Spottswood's attack "unfair and disheartening," and said that it "misrepresents" the Administration's record. "It is one thing to criticize, to give voice to deeply felt concerns," the telegram said. "But it is an entirely different thing to search out ways to portray the actions of this Administration in the worst possible light, to rally every fear and reinforce every anxiety. This sows distrust and makes our commonly agreed-on goals more difficult to achieve...
...Soviet Union almost never swings, especially as far as sex is concerned. Scoffing at sexy Western-style romance as a symbol of capitalist decadence, the Communists have imposed an almost Victorian prudery upon the country. Prostitution and pornography are outlawed. Soviet films and television usually portray love in terms of hand-holding affection, and foreign sex flicks are forbidden. There are no beauty contests, no pinup girls, no men's magazines. Sex education is almost entirely limited to a single injunction...