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...American intellectuals who were so badly burned by their forays into policy-making with the Kennedy administration. Vogelgesang postulates three interconnected preoccupations of American intellectuals: the exercise of moral conscience, obsession with their identity as intellectuals and their relationship to power. She concludes that in each case they are torn and that intellectuals now serve their society both by being at once part of and apart from the body politic. Yet there is no effort to describe the intellectual's rightful relation to power...
What to do about these attacks of violence? Spurred by police statistics and women's rights groups, some state legislatures are now rewriting their rape laws. To convict a rapist, most states require evidence to support the victim's claim: cuts, bruises or torn clothing, a medical report stating physical penetration and sometimes even an eyewitness who can identify the assailant. Believing that such rules were making it too tough to get convictions, Connecticut and New York recently repealed them...
...Boris Karloff in the role instead. At the very moment of its triumph, the press has become a villain to many, for Watergate has also focused attention on journalism's weaknesses. Despite the accomplishments of the past two years, newsmen have ample reason to feel besieged, and many are torn between self-congratulation and self-doubt...
Cronin's (114 Mt. Auburn St.) has lost its old atmosphere since having its building torn down several years ago. Once upon a time Cronin's was a Harvard student hangout located where Holyoke Center has since been plopped. Now it's all the way down past Brattle Sq. next to the MBTA yards. Cronin's is usually uncrowded, so the service is fast. It's not a bad place if being alone does not intimidate you or make you an alcoholic...
...gradually becomes clear that class escalation has taken a toll. Stripping away the complex humanity of Storey's characterizations, one sees that the eldest son has become an acerbic, vengeful fire brand; the middle son, a priggish, glossy Establishment apologist; and the young est a haunted, weepy, torn-apart teacher. What is immediately apparent is that the emotional ground between parents and sons has been land-mined. Affections that are not actually felt are masked in billboards ("To the finest mother and the finest dad") while genuine feelings of tenderness are muted in throwaway lines or not uttered...