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...psychoanalyst from Garden City, N.Y. "We have a controlled environment, without cigarettes, which cuts down the social-habit motivation. The groups help reinforce the nonsmoking motivation. The breathing and hypnotism classes do the same, and the films and lectures complete the program." These techniques have been aimed at smokers before-but never in a sustained barrage. Now we are the targets-at $250 apiece over usual cruise fares...
...Howard Hawks, the grand old man of the American western, deserves one. Truffaut has completed work on one new movie and plans to start filming another this fall. Each, in a different way, reveals the Truffaut genre: Stolen Kisses, which will soon open in the U.S., shows the rebel as before-but grown to maturity. Again, he is played by Jean-Pierre Leaud, the juvenile star of The 400 Blows. The new project, The Siren of Mississippi, is to be yet another salute to American cinema, a story of mail-order romance starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo...
General Anesthesia. Marcuse concedes that modern technology provides man with material well-being and even admits that more men may be happier today than ever before-but it is a happiness born of an ignorance ("a state of anesthesia") of what they could become. Men may think they have more freedom and more choices, he says, but the options open to them are not meaningfully different. In this state, man rejects all thoughts that challenge society's rationale-hence Marcuse's definition of man as "one-dimensional...
Kennedy had uttered such bold words before-but this time he intended to support them with action. The Communist Wall in Berlin caught the U.S. by surprise, and President Kennedy had no ready response. "There's no reason why we should do everything," he said. But he did decide, even if it meant war, to insist upon the maintenance of three basic Allied rights in Berlin: 1) the presence
...Nixon victory because of South Carolina's wide respect for conservative Republican Barry Goldwater, who will stump the state for Nixon. Mississippi, which once had a lethargic "black and tan" Republican organization, now has an energetic white party and big hopes; G.O.P. prospects are better in Mississippi than ever before-but not yet good enough...