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...beginning of a new era. Generally it is supposed to be a time of timidity and meanness. It may turn out to be good for international relations, but it is not recommended for marriage. Astrologers in Hong Kong say that the rat is a bad omen for connubial bliss, so unusually large numbers of Chinese couples there have recently been marrying in order to beat the deadline next month...
...tried to march with the band in an Independence Day parade last year carrying signs saying "NixOn War" and "Military Wives for Peace," the Army had had it. Some band privileges were revoked, and when dissension within the ranks followed, the Army transferred Cortright to band duty at Fort Bliss, Texas. The soldier claimed in U.S. district court that his free-speech rights had been violated. Though the lower court agreed, Chief Judge Henry Friendly for the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling. Friendly found that the Army had not gone too far in holding that Cortright...
...Robert Anderson puts the questions anew in the second, longer, and stronger of his duo of playlets, Solitaire/Double Solitaire. (The first is an Orwellian fantasy penned in plastic.) In Double Solitaire, Charley (Richard Venture) and Barbara (Joyce Ebert) have allowed 23 years of marriage to carry them from bliss to boredom. Charley is also caught in the middle of the contemporary value crisis. On the one side are his parents, people of stamina and principle, who have weathered 50 years of marriage. On the other side is Charley's son, who flaunts his liberated liaison with a girl...
Hard Knocks. Illich skillfully picks holes in his own scheme. The drawbacks are vast. With total freedom to choose their education, people might prefer the bliss of ignorance or fall prey to "charlatans, demagogues, clowns, miracle workers and messiahs." Abolishing required school attendance, as Mississippi did after the Supreme Court's desegregation order, might encourage pinch-penny governments to reduce their spending on education. The poor would thus be abandoned completely to the school of hard knocks. More subtly, making teachers depend on student demand might do grave harm to universities that now support "impractical" scholarship...
...play cards. [Laughter.] No, you just simply enjoy the bliss of being under water, especially if you're in the tropics, where there's a lot of coral and that sort of thing. It's just a dream experience. It isn't like anything else. You get your face down in the water and you feel like you're back home again. Maybe I'm related to a fish. I knew a guy who could trace his family tree back to the original lungfish that crawled out on land. Very snobbish fellow, by the way. [Laughter...