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...sheds a desultory tear when Kit kills her father but becomes quickly absorbed in her relationship with her new, and first, boy friend. She draws a snug blanket of smarmy romanticism over everything. Hiding out in the countryside, Kit and Holly build a tree house and pretend they are pioneers. When they are discovered and Kit guns the intruders down, she watches it all as if he were bagging a couple of animals for supper...
...made public by NBC newsman Carl Stern, who had obtained original FBI documents. And as far as the "national security" rationale--well, thanks to Watergate, we all know how that phrase is used. Perhaps the only question now bruited about in Washington is, "Will Nixon place a national security blanket on his tax returns...
...Ethics of Medical Faculty" was misleading about the content of my remarks. In the course of my discussion on medical ethics in general, I mentioned that several Harvard Medical School faculty members did not view the Alabama syphilis study as unethical. I did not at all suggest, in any blanket fashion, that the Medical School faculty was lacking in moral and ethical principles. In fact, the very vast majority of medical personnel in the Medical School have the highest ethical standards. Many of the professionals here have been national leaders in establishing strict guidelines for human experimentation. Alvin F. Poussaint...
Otten insisted that blanket rules tabooing injection of the first person in news analyses are too dogmatic. "The term 'perfect objectivity' is a snare and a delusion. Instead we must strive for fairness," he says...
...some Catholics have chosen to think of the new penitential prayers in the Mass as their "confession." Others, particularly on college campuses and in progressive parishes, have been taking part in unauthorized communal rites of penance, acknowledging their sins inwardly while a priest gives "general absolution"-a sort of blanket forgiveness-for the entire group. A variation sanctioned by the church-a combination of a communal celebration of the sacrament with brief individual confessions and absolution -has won wide acceptance in many U.S. parishes. As for more leisurely individual confessions that require some counseling, many penitents have in recent years...