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Against which everyone bravely, touchingly, builds his or her none-too- sturdy defenses. Mack, in fact, turns into a benign busybody, trying to pat almost all the lives that touch his into shape. His work comes out a little too neatly, but Kline's performance, like all the others, is engagingly soft- spoken. And well spoken. The screenplay -- by Lawrence and Meg Kasdan -- has a nice, unforced wit, and Lawrence Kasdan's direction has its jagged edges. If sometimes this loose and anecdotal film loses dramatic pace, it always rights itself. And it remains steadily in touch with its best...
...correlated precisely with Kinsey's, we wonder whether the "tireless" writer of this article was not a little eager in dismissing the 10 percent statistic. And given that, according to this statistic, 90 percent of the nation is straight (225 million people), we wonder whether, despite their protestations of benign tolerance, Peninsula writers do not intend any harm when they spuriously discredit Kinsey's finding...
Despite their best intentions. After reading the magazine, I'm not convinced that Peninsula's true motivation was as benign as they claim. Why did they pick on gays instead of the myriad of other "sinners" who populate Harvard College? Why did they pick a hugely inflammatory cover? Is the magazine's decision to pick on gays in this issue somehow related to its decision to pick on Jews in its last issue...
Drake thinks that all the research is a result of "wanting to understand the place of humans in the universe." He asks, "What have we become, what can civilization become? Can we lead a benign existence, or is warfare inevitable...
Then there is the international preoccupation with a benign Utopia -- Europe's reaction against the horror of war -- whose "spiritual" symbol was glass architecture. Besides the familiar Constructivist icons, such as the sculptor Vladimir Tatlin's wooden model for a giant tower that was to commemorate the Third Communist International, there are fantasies by much- lesser-known artists -- the outstanding one being a German, Wenzel Hablik, whose radiant glass towers and many-colored domes resemble designs for the New Jerusalem...