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Short of some magical political solution to today's more intractable tribal conflicts, the best hope is for wider psychological understanding of how to deal with the fanatics who insist upon pursuing those conflicts all over the civilized world. Until then, governments will be fumbling through other Munichs-and wondering sorrowfully afterwards how they all happened. · Timothy James
...Motion Picture Association of America's purification rite shorn of its scarlet letter, and two "explicit" sex scenes totaling 30 seconds. One is a bedroom romp involving Alex and two willing girls; the other shows soldiers raping a girl. The changes, Warner Bros, hopes, will attract a wider audience. Some theaters refuse to show X movies, and an increasing number of newspapers do not advertise them. Kubrick, who selected the footage to be excised, believes that the change will have scant effect on his chilling exercise in "psychedelic fascism." But the incident points up the damaging practice of lumping...
...even higher percentage (73%) of those polled said they would favor more birth control services and better dissemination of sex education. Abortion remains, of course, a crucial and politically dangerous issue, but last week there was another indication of wider acceptance. The U.S. Second Circuit Court ruled that, contrary to a 1971 directive by New York's former Social Services Commissioner George Wyman, patients must be allowed to use the state's Medicaid funds to pay for their abortions, which are legal in New York. Wyman's order, said the court, "would deny indigent women the equal...
...that Henry Ford runs for his cars. They came from the families that Polaroid tells about at Christmas time, a little overweight and a little overhappy. They arrived in Hart, Schaffner & Marx, with burnt orange by Arrow. Their jaws seemed firmer, teeth bigger and whiter, complexions clearer, shoulders wider, backs straighter than the Democrats', and they had handshakes likes vises. Wandering across the convention floor was like strolling down Main Street with some side excursions up its suburban companion, Elm Street. There was the clean fragrance of Mennen's Skin Bracer and the soft clucks of mothers with their glasses...
...land was in its summer rhythms. The unrelenting litany of problems remained-the war, inflation, unemployment, pollution. Ahead loomed a somewhat strange presidential election that might wedge the old divisions wider than ever. Yet for the moment, much of America was suspended in an August pause. Compared with the national mood a year ago-a weary funk of economic uncertainty-there was now even a sense of a new summer sweetness, an ease, or apathy, and in some parts of the country a distinct savor of contentment...