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...Sealed Envelopes. A few members of Congress have protested vigorously against the spreading cloak of governmental secrecy, notably Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, who is concerned about national security affairs, and Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, who regards the proliferation of domestic intelligence activities as a serious threat to individual civil rights. It should be added, though, that the House and Senate are often less than candid about their own operations. The requirement that politicians report their campaign spending, for example, is honored more in the breach than the observance, since only a tiny fraction of funds actually...
Seething Anger. According to another theory, the impediment is a symptom of buried hostility. Says Psychologist Murry Snyder, executive director of New York City's Speech Rehabilitation Institute: "Underneath the cloak of inhibition and mild manner, the stutterer often seethes with anger." In support of this theory, he and others note that the stutterer can be fluent, and usually is, in circumstances that do not require him to communicate his own feelings: when he is an actor, for example, delivering someone else's words to an audience of strangers...
Candid Display. In the contemporary theater there is usually some attempt to cloak the evening's activities in a lofty rationale of protest. The Dirtiest Show in Town emits the mandatory blasts at the Viet Nam War, air pollution, urban blight and computerized conformity. So what else is new? Something of durable human concern and curiosity that cannot be graphically described: scenes of fornication, cunnilingus, fellatio, communal couplings and a candid display of homosexual and lesbian preferences...
until all things stand out like the folds of a cloak...
...sort of coaxed me-got me involved in publications I didn't know about or suggested I ought to cover this or that demonstration." For his "services," Salzberg (code name: "Winston") received $6,700, all in cash, plus another $2,300 for expenses, delivered in high cloak-and-dagger style in parking lots, parks, street corners and zoos. He protests that he did not do it for the money. "I personally feel that by any means necessary Communism must be stopped. What surprises me is that newspaper editors haven't called me up to congratulate...