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Sexism and its cultural and tradition-linked contradictions emerge in highly charged exchanges between an intense, riveting Arthur (Jeffrey Rubin) and Ala (Diana Silver). Arthur argues for a practical marriage based on "pleasure and profit" while hypocritically undermining his criticism of loose mores with a blunt display of sexual aggression...
...aspect of social protest which Berrigan takes seriously is the use of violence. Berrigan breaks with the more traditional New Testament position by refusing to condemn all violent acts. "I don't want to use non-violence as a blunt weapon against people in trouble," Berrigan told a largely hostile audience at his speech...
...fired a hard shot at Crimson netminder Jim Michelson, who made an excellent save to blunt the bid, but B.C.'s Walter Cox connected with the rebound...
...arrest Smith and his "gang of illegitimates" and replace the white government with a British-led multiracial committee including representatives of the guerrilla factions as well as respected Rhodesian whites to prepare for one-man, one-vote elections. There was little hope his plea would be heeded, but his blunt language was a clear measure of widespread African frustration about how to deal with a country that, as TIME'S Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs found last week, seems increasingly out of touch with reality-and with itself...
...little reason to question his argument that the United States could adopt such a posture. What is in doubt of course, is whether we should. Or to phrase the question differently, what kind of world would we then be living in. Now Ravenal doesn't want to be too blunt about things, but he does seem to have some sense of what might happen, and so he takes a roundabout approach...