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...knack is that of seduction; how to get it isn't made explicit, but it doesn't hurt to be falsely accused of rape, apparently. It is some time, though, before Colin, a London schoolteacher who has made it with only two girls in as many years--"I started late," he insists--hits upon this expedient. And until then he must suffer Tolen, who is rooming in his house. Blandly arrogant and condescending, Tolen makes his women stand in line, restricts them to just one word in his guest book, and bestows souvenir medallions. He observes of one curvaceous creature...
...fairy tale, and that, in effect, is what The Knack is. It's theme is the old Grimm Brother favorite of feeling's triumph over unfeeling, innocence's defeat of evil. Would a rake like Tolen be likely to harbor a secret dread of unjust arrest for rape? Well, no, but we accept his breakdown because we are more interested in seeing that he gets his comcuppance than in justifying it psychologically. And surely our wishes rather than our reallife expectations are satisfied by the simultaneous flowering of the hero and deflowering of the heroine...
...against this." Other physicians take precisely the opposite view. Dr. Daniel G. Morton, obstetrics chief at the University of California Medical Center in Los Angeles, states frankly: "Therapeutic abortions have been done here for German measles and other reasons." Among the "other reasons" accepted at many medical centers are rape and incest...
...abortions performed in licensed hospitals if at least two physicians agree that there is substantial risk of grave damage to the mother's physical or mental health, or of the child's being born with a grave physical or mental defect, or when the pregnancy results from rape or incest. This would legalize abortions in the German-measles cases. Bills to amend the law along these lines were introduced, but failed, in New York and California...
...Chinese to go Communist in self-defense. Author Suyin lets her morbid imagination gallop away when she writes of such events as the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 by Japan and the Western powers: "Soldiers of France and England and Germany went about with open trousers to rape women, and spears to impale the babies. Militant missionaries boasted of the peasants they shot after baptising them. One of them, an American, wrote: 'I sent eight hundred and forty-one new souls to heaven this week.' And there is that German officer having fun in Peking...