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...Lesbian theme does not guarantee that his film will be any better than the excellent Goldwyn version; it is only indicative of a new Hollywood era in which all the old taboos are gone, and more seems permissible than at any time since the movies' earliest, nudest and crudest days...
...advanced industrial society, however democratic, a "handful of men in secret" make the choices that "determine in the crudest sense whether we live or die." So argued English Novelist Sir Charles Percy Snow last week as he delivered Harvard University's prestigious Godkin Lectures on public affairs.* Snow's plea was for more scientists in government, thus minimizing the role of hunch and political intuition...
...British government works) made the narrative more alive than it could possibly have been in the hands of a historian. This historic parable was meant to illustrate that, in modern industrial societies, a handful of men engaged in secret politics make decisions which determine "in the crudest sense whether we live...
...threads of narrative where he had left off: with the conclusion of his historic "parable" concerning two English scientists and their portentous . His purpose in using the parable was to show how it is that in advanced societies, "a handful of man make secret decisions which determine in crudest sense whether we live...
...purpose of this historic "parable," Snow told his Sanders Theatre audience, was to illustrate a bizarre feature of modern life: that in advanced industrial societies, such as England, the United States and Russia, a handful of men make secret decisions which determine "in the crudest sense whether we live...