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...love between Lipscomb and his son, though altered, survived. "John's childhood is past," writes Lipscomb in the book's closing pages. "His idealization of his father is history." But, like many a father, he hopes that his son's respect for him now encompasses a wider view of the old man's faults, failings and possible virtues. For that reason alone, concludes Lipscomb, the voyage was worthwhile...
...switch from Kissinger carrying out Kissinger's policy to Kissinger carrying out Ford's. This change will mean little if Ford relies as heavily upon Kissinger as Nixon did. However, there are several compelling reasons to believe that Ford's foreign policy will be formulated from a much wider base than the Nixon-Kissinger axis...
...picture that emerges from Seifer's study is at once grim and quietly optimistic. In 1955, full-time women workers earned 64 per cent of the average full-time salary for men. Rather than narrowing, the gap is getting wider. In 1972, women earned only 59 per cent as much as men. And predictably enough, it is the blue-collar women workers, who can least afford to, who have shouldered the lion's share of that inequity. And as Seifer details, they have shouldered even more--the deadly tedium of the only kind of jobs they can get, and their...
...like most of Williams's plays, casts its net far wider, exploring a number of major themes: illusion and reality and the impact idealism has on them (there is a lesson in the fact that, in this matter, Williams and O'Neill--in The Iceman Cometh--could take opposing positions and both be convincing); the need to overcome isolation and the obstacles to communication and worthy personal relationships; the nature of power, both materialistic and spiritual; and sexual conflict and guilt (heterosexual as well as homosexual). As often with Williams, disease and neurosis and death are also involved...
...author does not confine his scientist's eye to a microscope. He takes a much wider view of the world, looking at insect behavior and the possibility of intelligent life in outer space or bird songs and the evolution of language. He also offers a modest proposal for saving ourselves from nuclear self-destruction. He suggests that we program into the computers that aim our intercontinental missiles the instruction not to fire until we have acquired complete information about one living thing. He even offers as a candidate for this honor a protozoan called Myxotricha paradoxa, which lives...