Word: brackman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jacob Brackman's "Bad Focused Slides With Sound" suffers too from a clipped, somewhat short hand style, but only because his piece is by far the most ambitious and interesting in the magazine. He attempts to write not about a day but a generation, not about one person but a boy's divergence from his family...
...Brackman had troubled to read the ads on the same page as his non-review of Charade, he would have noticed that the film was about to open at his friendly neighborhood theatre, the Harvard Square, where it is now playing (adv.) and where his request for a reviewer's pass would have been honored, allowing him to observe, among other things, that Audrey Hepburn never, never wears four-inch heels. Jey A. W. Pratt, Harvard Square Theatre...
...Brackman's view, any "initiation" of, say, a nineteen or twenty-year-old male to homosexual acts exposes him to "inevitable emotional damage," so the seducer is inevitably "irresponsible." Oh, I suppose so. It is also often damaging to hold back and effectually reject. In life you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. (But Jacob's tone sounds a little like the "obsessional heterosexuality" that Ferencxi claimed made peace and fraternity impossible in Europe!) My weary opinion is, as Professor Carlson used to say at Chicago, "It's joost living that wears...
...come to my main point. Mr. Brackman's reporting of my opinions on pregnany is irresponsible and contemptible. He says some garbage about my "callous lack of concern for the plight of the unloved illegitimate child and the unwed mother." These words are entirely out of his own mind or heart. Let me review the dialogue as it occurred. In my presentation, I quoted Alex Comfort's two commandments; "Do not exploit another's feelings, and do not cause an unwanted birth," I cautioned, however, that often middle-class people put off having children, or even compel abortions...
...BRACKMAN REPLIES...