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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asses of themselves. It is painful to the thousands of less-pampered "students" here who take their lessons from instructors in black pajamas and sandals; where classrooms are sandbagged, sweaty jungle clearings; where a drink is four tablets in a canteen of warm muddy water; where the Saturday night date is a cold beer and a letter from home; and where the grades are not As, Bs and Cs, but sudden death, crippling wounds or, maybe, victory...
Since the Soviets knew that Shub was scheduled to leave Moscow in July for a new assignment, his expulsion raised the question of why they had chosen at this late date to make an issue of his reporting. Foreign diplomats and correspondents in Moscow surmised that the Soviets wanted to make an example of him in the hopes of discouraging similar reporting by other newsmen. In retaliation, the U.S. at week's end ordered a Tass correspondent based in Washington to get out of the country within 48 hours...
...some parents, Ginott may seem excessively tolerant of misbehavior. About some aspects of adolescent life his new book reveals him as tartly oldfashioned. He abhors early dating, for example. "The ones who enjoy such spectacles as paired parties for twelve-year-olds, padded bras for eleven-year-olds, and going steady for an ever younger age are adults to whom the clumsiness of children looks cute." He is against marijuana, at least until harsh legal penalties are relaxed, and urges parents to suggest moderate alternatives when teenage behavior is likely to hurt others. He approvingly quotes a father who told...
...instant hit after its 1844 Paris premiere, and its popularity, in part, inspired such works as Delibes' Lakmé and Verdi's Aida. So much for success. By the end of the century, both David and Le Désert were considered as out of date as a daguerreotype...
...screen, Senator Everett Dirksen cited the film as yet another reason for supporting his bill to limit Supreme Court power in obscenity hearings. Had he seen the film himself? "Lord, no," the Senator rumbled. That, and six letters to the theaters, have been the sole Washington grumbles to date...