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...general, Chaplin has little sympathy for modern society: the ship's Captain is slightly corrupt; Ogden's wife, Martha excudes coldness and cares only for money: Ogden's best friend, Harvey (Sydney Chaplin), is ineffectual, his part consisting mainly of reacting and commenting on the action. Natascha tells him she thinks Ogden doesn't love her; he thinks for a moment and finally says, rather tentatively, "I don't agree." It is the best...
...price of campaigning has gone up and up. Pierre Salinger's losing campaign for U.S. Senator in California cost $1,600,000; Reagan's for Governor cost $5,000,000, or roughly $1.60 per vote. Few of the expenses are on official record, since the Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 stipulates that a Senator can spend only $25,000 on his campaign, a Representative $5,000. A candidate gets around this simply by setting up innumerable committees that collect and spend funds for his campaign without his "knowledge or consent." Thus Massachusetts' Senator Ted Kennedy, like many...
...often censored. Inviting contributions from students throughout the city, Insight objects to adult complaints about teen-age tendencies toward freer sex, claims that grown-ups are the ones "who patronize topless restaurants" and "publish and read the sadistic sex magazines." When adults contend that sexy movies might "corrupt the minds of our youth," they imply "either that the adults have corrupt minds already or that it's O.K. to corrupt them...
...them are not very smart. The movement itself is overtly anti-intellectual, with constant references to the moral poverty of "brainpower." The 18-year-olds have no trouble grasping a simple solution to complex problems. The world and all its tensione, its bombs and its murderers and its corrupt politicians and its hypocritical clergymen, the world is evil. But all the problems will disappear if all men get the message: Change yourselves. Clean up your dirty characters. Be absolutely moral, live with love and purity and unselfishness and honesty and the world will be good. It is all very nice...
...thing to express shock, quite another to brand the Fugs obscene and "manifestly tending to corrupt the morals of youth." "I think we help their morality," says Sanders seriously. "We give them alternative ways of viewing their sexuality. And it's not all sexual, you know. It's all-tied up in literature, politics, and economics. It's satirical and funny. I know the record has 'redeeming social importance...