Word: births
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unstinted Adulation. Bobby's key phrases-"We can do better"; "This is a time to begin again"-are borrowed almost verbatim from Jack's vintage-'60 speeches. He makes the same effective use of statistics, from rates of birth to frequency of rat bites; he, too, sprinkles his talks with erudite quotations, from Archimedes and Camus, Goethe and Shaw. And like Jack's, his political persona is considerably more adventurous than his explicit statements and positions...
...Other top films range in style from Vojtech Jasný's fantasy about a cat with magic glasses who sees through human deceptions, When the Cat Comes, to Jaromil Jires' charming record of a couple's reminiscences on the eve of their first child's birth, The First...
...Life Begins began, literally, with the birds and the bees, covered marine life and then the lower mammals (a spaniel bitch lovingly licking life into a pup emerging from her womb). With humans, the program called a sperm a sperm, and showed a natural birth at Manhattan's Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals. The mother's face, at first view contorted during her contractions, suddenly suffused with pleasure at the first cry of her child. ABC also edited in segments of the famed Swedish film on the growth of the fetus that had been shown the week before...
...scenery was impressive, but stagy re-enactments of scenes from the book were tossed in like roadblocks, and the show got lost east of the Black Hills. National Educational Television claimed an American TV first by showing a remarkable 30-minute color film of a baby's birth. But the program was spoiled by one of those dull panel discussions that plague so much of Public...
...SFAC was doomed at birth. Like many other student groups (HUC, for example), its precise role in the policy-making apparatus of the University was unclear. Most members did not know until after the Faculty had voted down the Dow resolution that the SFAC would have to channel its proposals through the Faculty before they would reach the Administration and be enacted. Two months later, the SFAC's status remains unclear: Can a television proposal go straight to the Council of Deans? Does a resolution asking SFAC members to take polls of their constituents require Faculty approval? No one really...