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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout my life I've listened to theologians attempt to picture the horrors of hell. The article "Anthems of the Blank Generation" [July 11], with those hideous pictures and the report of the nauseating behavior of the psychopathic participants, would answer the age-old question: What is hell really like...
...therefore disturbs me to see their specialty and goals described in terms of economics or specialty competition. It is certainly not my impression that the family practitioners are purveyors of "discount medicine" and that they would attempt procedures and substitute therapy for which they are not trained...
Unlike the Saudis, the aggressive Iranians have been scouting the world for imaginative long-term investments. But although they succeeded in making a deal for a 25% interest in Krupp, the West German heavy-manufacturing complex, they have not pursued any similar investment in the U.S. since their abortive attempt to buy into Pan American Airways in 1975. Lately, Iranian investment money has been appearing in the U.S. in less politically sensitive ventures like real estate, notably in New York, California and Louisiana...
Directed by a self-styled "Commander of the Faithful" named Shukri Ahmed Moustafa, the society consists of perhaps 500 youths. Three years ago, in a clumsy attempt to overthrow Sadat's "atheistic" regime, Moustafa's followers attacked the Egyptian Technical Military Academy at Heliopolis and provoked a battle with guards in which eleven people died and 27 were wounded. A year later townsmen of the Nile Valley village of Minya complained that the group was brainwashing their daughters and carrying them off as concubines. One young girl was even persuaded by the group to commit suicide...
York delays the film's slide into silliness with a surprisingly moving scene in which he clings to his humanity despite Moreau's attempt to use him as an experiment in reverse evolution. But the beast-people are getting restless, and a B-movie Apocalypse is in the wind. Clearly there are some cosmic ironies about God, nature, man and beast lurk ing in all this. But it is probably best to follow the film's example and not think about them...