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...hanging by your ankles from a flagpole, 100 feet above a New York street, with thousands watching? Why get out of complicated shackles and leg irons on terra firma, when you can make it more difficult by first jumping off a bridge into a river below? Houdini did his utmost to excite and titillate the public: he did dozens of strait jacket escapes hanging upside down in the air, and scores of bridge jumps while manacled. (He even jumped off the Harvard Bridge in early May of 1908. Harvard students, in the midst of reading period, probably thought twice about...
Olivia's voice was made for the song. "I Honestly Love You," in which she uses her feminine appeal to the utmost. The listener is told countless times, "I love you, I love you, I honestly love you." But while the lyrics may not be of a high caliber, the song accomplishes its objective, assuming Olivia is trying to seduce her fans en masse...
...violence in the U.S. in the middle and late 19th century. Another factor that historically has been accompanied by crime, points out Sociologist Marvin Wolfgang, is individual freedom. Some experts today argue that juvenile crime is spreading because everyone is pushing what he considers his "rights" to the utmost limits. Standards are lowered and blurred: any behavior, however deviant, finds its instant defenders. The traditional and constraining institutions of family, church and school have lost much of their authority. Says LaMar Empey, a University of Southern California criminologist who specializes in youth: "The 1960s saw the dissipation of the traditional...
...grinding out submissive policy advisors, responsive only to the needs of power. We want a free, open university that is responsive to the needs of the great bulk of the community, and in this sense our struggle is linked to the larger social condition. Thus, it is of the utmost importance that we resist the appointment of Kissinger in the strongest possible way, for he is a symbol as well as a practitioner of what the university should stand against. Instead, Kissinger's personal contempt for academic freedom, as demonstrated by his actions, not his words, makes him unfit...
...sooner recorded than U.S. Jews rushed out to their travel agents to cancel their reservations for Mexican vacations. The tourist business has yet to recover from that devastating period. López Portillo cannot erase his country's vote in the U.N., but he is doing his utmost to convince foreigners of all persuasions that Mexico is once again, as a new slogan declares, "the amigo country...